Out of Many, One: Rhetoric in The Gettysburg Address and "O Captain! My Captain!" Answers

When Lincoln says, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here,” what is his purpose for using brevity?to avoid having to give additional details about why the world will not remember and why people should never forgetto show how he really does hope that his speech will become something everyone remembers to use words with strong connotations that suggest heroism and forgetfulnessto convey that his speech is not as important as the

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