Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln
1- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon
this continent, a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are
engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any
nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are
met on a great battle-held of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here
gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting
and proper that we should do this.
2- But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate-we cannot
consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. The brave men, living
and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our
poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long
remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did
here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who fought here, have, thus far, so
nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great
Which of the following
excerpts from Lincoln's
"Gettysburg Address" utilizes
emotional appeal to honor the
soldiers that died?
A 'We here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain"
B. "But, in a larger sense"
C. "Four score and seven years ago"
