Meanwhile, the famous Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln begins with:įour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. The translators of the Authorized Version (KJV) must have decided to use the more poetic " three score years and ten" instead. "šiḇʿîm" has "שֶׁבַע" (šeḇaʿ) as its root, and that simply means "seven", again with no use of "score". The much older Latin Vulgate has the "70 years" as: "septuaginta anni", where the first word is clearly "70" without the use of "score". The days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Epiphora (also known as epistrophe) is a rhetorical term meaning "the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses.Psalm 90:10 (King James Version) - Original Hebrew.The phrase "birth of freedom" in the final line of Lincoln's address calls to mind which similar phrase in the first sentence of the speech?.Which one of the following words does not appear more than once? Lincoln repeats several key words in his short address.(D) "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground." (C) "We are met on a great battlefield of that war." (B) "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here while it can never forget what they did here." Parallelism is a rhetorical term meaning "similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses." In which of the following sentences does Lincoln use parallelism?.(E) greeted in a warm and friendly manner who struggled here." What is the meaning of consecrated? This ground, Lincoln says, has been "consecrated" by the "men.(E) "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground." (D) "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here while it can never forget what they did here." (B) "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure." (A) "We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. In which of the following lines does Lincoln employ a tricolon? ![]() A tricolon is a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses."We are met," Lincoln says in line three, "on a great battlefield of that war." What is the name of that battlefield?. ![]()
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