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We are now far into the fifth (5th) year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation.

Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government (the United States) cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free.

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I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.

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Mr. Lincoln. . . says that this Government cannot endure permanently in the same condition in which it was made by its framers - divided into free and slave states. . .

Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Jay, and the great men of that day. . . left each State perfectly free to do as it pleased on the subject of slavery. Why can it not exist on the same principles on which our fathers made it?. . .

At the time the Constitution was framed, there were thirteen (13) States in the Union, twelve (12) of which were slaveholding States and one (1) free State.

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Suppose this doctrine of uniformity preached by Mr. Lincoln, that the States should all be free or all be slave had prevailed, and what would have been the result?

Of course, the twelve (12) slaveholding States would have overruled the one (1) free State, and slavery would have been fastened by a Constitutional provision on every inch of the American Republic. . .

Here I assert that uniformity in the local laws and institutions of the different States is neither possible or desirable.

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Please read the following speeches and see if you can identify any rhetorical devices used by the authors.

Metaphor

Allusion

Alliteration

Simile

Oxymoron

Hyperbole

Antithesis

Assonance

Anaphora

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I think that Abraham Lincoln used .... in his speech.

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I think that Abraham Lincoln used a comparision in his speech.

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he is using repetition in the beginning

"I do not expect"

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I believe that Lincoln used an enumeration

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Alliteration: Busy as a bee.

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Hyperbole: You're walking slower than a snail

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Hyperbole: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse

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"My mom has a heart of gold"

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Lincoln used pathos by invoking the names of our founding fathers.

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Metaphor :

His heart was broken

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Life is a rollercoaster

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Your eyes are as bright as stars

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Hyperbole: There's enough food on the table to feed an entire army!

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She is as busy as a bee.

Similie

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oxymoron

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Antithesis

That silence was loud

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Simile

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Life is a rollercoaster. Metaphor

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I’m not Sherlock Holmes to figure that out 

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I’m not Sherlock Holmes to figure that out 

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I’m not Sherlock Holmes to figure that out 

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Hyperbole : the classroom is as cold as the Arctic.

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Anaphora

“So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania…” — Martin Luther King

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Example

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time is money.