"The Gettysburg Address" by Aeryn Russ https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1 Persuasive technique- Pathos en-us 2020-10-29 21:25:28 UTC 2025-11-28 12:16:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/433744035/22a3c709a05ebce923755254456b96d5/Lincoln.jpeg Pathos= Emotions aerrus4276 https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875001084 Pathos a persuasive technique based on an emotional appeal; often relies on an impassioned plea or a convincing story to convince and win over the listener. ]]> 2020-10-29 21:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875001084 aerrus4276 https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875020950 "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
These are powerful words that reference the Declaration of Independence. Lincoln is saying we are a nation whose history is based on the principles of freedom and equality. ]]> 2020-10-29 21:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875020950 aerrus4276 https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875029377 "But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract." 
He's saying words can't make this battlefield more sacred than the actions of the men who fought and died at Gettysburg.]]> 2020-10-29 22:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875029377 aerrus4276 https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875031459 "that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain" 

These lines pay testimony to the soldiers who died fighting there. This is a call to arms. His words reflect the determination of the Union to win the war.]]> 2020-10-29 22:05:35 UTC https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875031459 aerrus4276 https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875035145
"This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Here, Lincoln defines democracy as a government "of the people, for the people, for the people". He is reminding the listener what it is they are fighting for and that the Union will be victorious.

]]> 2020-10-29 22:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875035145 aerrus4276 https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875302606 Scene from the movie Lincoln. The ending  is symbolic. The black soldier saying "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom"  is symbolic of the end of slavery.]]> 2020-10-30 00:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aerrus4276/rou9d8b85xo557l1/wish/875302606