Which sentence contains parallel structure?
Read the information in the chart. Rhetorical Appeal Description Logos Targets audience's sense of logic Ethos Appeals to audience's belief in character and credibility Pathos Which description best completes the chart?
Which sentence contains parallel structure?
Read the excerpt from Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. 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. Identify the purpose behind Lincoln’s use of pathos in this excerpt. Select the correct answer in each row.
Read the excerpt from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Each [party] looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. Which statement best d escribes Lincoln’s use of rhetorical appeal?
Which lines from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address appeal to pathos? Choose two correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. [S]hall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Lincoln uses parallel structure to
Read the excerpt from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Which idea does Lincoln emphasize through the use of parallel structure?
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