Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address: Unity, Religion & Rhetoric
Words: 603 Pages: 2 1356Bridging the Divide through Parallelism and Religion President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address was a way to bring hope during the Civil War. This was written near the end of the war to many mourning citizens. In his address, Lincoln shows the similarities of the two sides of the war. President Lincoln used parallelism, allusions to God, and personification of war to turn hatred away from the South. Lincoln does this to turn the fight to the war itself and […]