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In the Gettysburg Address, which rhetorical device does Abraham Lincoln employ when he says, "that government of the people, by the people, for the people"?

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antithesis
antithesis

alliteration
alliteration

repetition
repetition

apostrophe
apostrophe

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The rhetorical device employed by Abraham Lincoln in the quote "that government of the people, by the people, for the people" is anaphora, which is a type of repetition.
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