Rhetoric Analysis #22 + Practice

In "The Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln he speaks to the people on the battlefield on Gettysburg. There are many rhetorical devices Abraham uses in his speech. They all were good strategies to get the people going, but there was one that made them emotional. Pathos. While he was speaking to the people, they were looking round at the rotten bodies sinking into the ground from were it came from, decaying right in front of their eyes. Fly's, bugs, and maggets eating every bit of the dead "honored" soldiers. He states "that these dead shall not have died in vain" which proclaims to the nation that they will win the war for the dead soldiers. As for me, i know were he is coming from and how the people were so stirred to fight till the end. My mother past away four years ago and every day I think of making her proud, for that everything she instilled in my life will also not go in vain!