by Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg address delivered at Gettysburg Pa. Nov. 19th, 1863. [n. p. n. d.].
Gettysburg Address
Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa.
Nov. 19th 1863.
“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. “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 battlefield 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. “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 task remaining before us,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, that 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.”
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
Why does Lincoln repeat the word people in different phrases at the end of his speech?
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Responses
The repetition is a way to bring attention to his critics’ complaints about his work.
The repetition is a way to bring attention to his critics’ complaints about his work.
The repetition conveys a list of different types of people Lincoln wants to influence.
The repetition conveys a list of different types of people Lincoln wants to influence.
The repetition emphasizes Lincoln’s commitment to his belief that people have the power to make the country a better place.
The repetition emphasizes Lincoln’s commitment to his belief that people have the power to make the country a better place.
The repetition shows that Lincoln isn’t sure what he wants to say so he keeps rephrasing his ideas.
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The correct response is:
The repetition emphasizes Lincoln’s commitment to his belief that people have the power to make the country a better place.
This emphasizes the democratic ideals that governments should be for, by, and of the people, underscoring Lincoln's message about the importance of citizen involvement in safeguarding freedom and democracy.
