Question

"On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came."

Answer 1

"On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came."

What theme is presented in this passage from President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address?

One side did not want war

Both sides wanted war

Lincoln’s speech caused war

War was unwanted, but unavoidable

Answer 2

War was unwanted, but unavoidable.

Answer 3

"All dreaded it, all sought to avert it" is the main support for this.

Answer 4

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

What is the purpose of this passage from President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address?

to argue that the impact of the war has not yet matched the impact of slavery

to show that God will judge everyone who participates in the war

to explain that the war will last two hundred fifty years

to illustrate that the war has already lasted three thousand years
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Answer 5

To argue that the impact of the war has not yet matched the impact of slavery.

Answer 6

Which of the following is an example of a rhetorical device?

purpose

ethos

emotion

pattern
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Answer 7

AT this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured."

Which rhetorical element is included in this passage from President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address?

ethos

theme

thesis

logos

Answer 8

Ethos is a rhetorical device.

Answer 9

what about the second question @cielphantomhives

Answer 10

Give me a moment to read it.

Answer 11

Logos.

Answer 12

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

These lines establish the __________________ for the Declaration of Independence.

thesis

theme

purpose

pathos

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

The theme of this passage from the Declaration of Independence is best described as:

the people must remove any government that destroys rights

certain truths are easily understood

life, liberty, and happiness are the most important rights

new government brings safety and happiness
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Answer 13

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