Read the excerpt from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address.
Which statement best describes Lincoln's use of rhetorical
appeal?
Each (party] looked for an easier triumph, and a result less
fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and
pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the
other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask
a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the
the
sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be
not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That
of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His
own purposes.
pathos to stir listeners' anger and outrage.
explain the historical significance of war.
He relies on pathos to reveal his own conflicted emotions
about war.
He uses ethos to illustrate the similarities between North
and South