1. The Gettysburg Address

2. Think of something you feel strongly about.
Maybe you're passionate about preventing animal cruelty;
maybe you really want to save the planet;
or maybe you really, really want to convince your parents to start teaching you to drive.
How would you convince someone that your position is the most correct?

3. Pull out the rhetorical devices of logos, ethos, and pathos.
What did President Lincoln feel very strongly about?
Lincoln approached his speech with the experiences of the Civil War and a strong cultural belief in every man's equality.
These factors shaped his point of view and inevitably his speech.

4. Ethos - convince their audiences that they know what they're talking about – that they're reliable, believable sources of information
What would you emphasize (using ethos) with your parents if you’re trying to convince them that you're ready to get your driver's license?

5. Ethos - convince their audiences that they know what they're talking about – that they're reliable, believable sources of information
What would you emphasize (using ethos) with your parents if you’re trying to convince them that you're ready to get your driver's license?
knowledge of driving laws and various aspects of maintaining a car.
how responsible you've been
use a lot of great examples
prove that you're mature and knowledgeable enough to be trusted with such a huge responsibility.

6. Ethos in the Gettysburg Address
Lincoln reminds people how long America has been a nation and why the nation was formed,
"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."
pointing out that he not only knows his history, but that he's also well aware of why the nation was formed then.
He wants to connect that history to why they're fighting the Civil War now – the freeing of a group of people.

7. Pathos - appeal to the emotions of your audience
Frequent references to the dead "who here gave their lives that that nation might live."
Appeals to their tenderness and create emotion
How would you use pathos with your parents and the driving example?

8. Pathos - appeal to the emotions of your audience
Frequent references to the dead "who here gave their lives that that nation might live."
Appeals to their tenderness and create emotion
How would you use pathos with your parents and the driving example?
"All of my friends' parents really love them and have already trusted them to learn how to drive."
The "fair" version would be "All of my friends' parents have let them learn how to drive.“
The meaning of both sentences is the same, but the implication that your friends' parents love them more and trust them more is inherent in the first sentence.

9. alliteration, repetition and extended metaphor
Alliteration - the repetition of the same consonant letters at the beginning of words that are close to each other in the text
Examples in the text?

10. Repetition – provides emphasis and lends credibility to what he’s saying
Find examples in the text?

11. Repetition – provides emphasis and lends credibility to what he’s saying
"We are engaged, we are met, we have come”
ties his audience together to remind them that it is everyone's responsibility to honor the men killed in battle
ensure the continuation of the nation.
"of the people, by the people, and for the people."

12. Metaphor – birth and rebirth
frequent reference to the nation being born
"conceived in Liberty…[that] shall have a new birth of freedom."
The repetition of words alluding to birth is found throughout the speech:
"Fourscore 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."

13. O video – Historical significance, rhetorical devices, literary significance