Mark the contrasting or opposing elements in each passage from the address. Then, note whether or not each is an example of formal antithesis. Share your work with your group, and discuss and clarify any points of confusion. 1. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live.

2. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here...

3. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

4. ...we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom...