In this passage, Abraham Lincoln employs parallelism. This rhetorical device is evident in the repetition of similar grammatical structures within the phrases "with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right," which creates rhythm and emphasizes his message of unity and compassion.
Read the passage below, looking for rhetorical devices.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
What rhetorical device does Lincoln use in this passage?
allusion
parallelism
metaphor
hyperbole
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