Is it
Alliteration
Anaphora
Antithesis
Apostrophe

In the Gettysburg Address, which rhetorical device does Abraham Lincoln employ when he states, " we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow the ground"?

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Is it 
Alliteration
Anaphora
Antithesis
Apostrophe

In the Gettysburg Address, which rhetorical device does Abraham Lincoln employ when he states, " we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow the ground"?

otonogold · Answer

I think it is C

e.mccormick · Answer

An antithesis is something with an opposite meaning.  To quote an example, "love is the antithesis of selfishness"

otonogold · Answer

like good and bad big & small? antonym?

e.mccormick · Answer

Well, as a person or a thing rather than just a word is the difference in the dictionary definitions.  Other than that, yah, pretty much opposites are an antonym or an antithesis.

e.mccormick · Answer

Those all seem to be the same, so I do not see it being an antithesis used here.

e.mccormick · Answer

I had to look up apostrophe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_%28figure_of_speech%29 Never heard that one before. But, it pretty much eliminates it as a choice.

otonogold · Answer

OHHH it would be B because he states, " we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow the ground"? he says we cannot repeatively

otonogold · Answer

Anaphora  is a rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

e.mccormick · Answer

Yah, I think that might be best.  There IS an alliteration, but only in two of the three.  But the anaphora is in all three.

otonogold · Answer

Thank you :))

e.mccormick · Answer

np.  have fun!