DIRECTIONS: Read the following sentence from Abraham Lincoln's The Gettysburg
Address, then answer the questions about tone that follow.
Four 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.
1) What tone is evoked by Lincoln's use of "fathers" to describe the founders of America?
2) What tone is evoked by Lincoln's phrasing on this continent, a new nation" as opposed
to simply saying "created the United States?"
3) What tone is evoked by Lincoln using phrases such as "liberty" and “the proposition
that all men are created equal" to describe the war's purpose, instead of focusing on more
earthly topics such as whether a state was legally allowed to leave the union?
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