"if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? " which rhetorical element is included in this passage from president lincoln's second inaugural address? (5 points) select one: a. ethos b. theme c. logos d. thesis

The correct answer is A) Ethos.

The rhetorical element that is included in this passage from President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address is Ethos.

In this portion of his Second Inaugural Address, President Abraham Lincoln is trying to use ethos to appeal to its audience. Ethos is the ethical appeal that uses the credibility of the speaker to convince the audience. In this case, Lincoln ideas and reputation were are credible sources. The other two modes that are aimed to convince audiences are pathos and logos. Pathos is the appeal to emotion to convince an audience and logos is the appeal to the reason, to use logic.

b)metaphor

explanation:

when reading the sentence carefully it says,"hope is a thing with feathers" it's like saying: hope is a thing like feathers

get what i'm saying? instead of using a smilie like or as they use "with"

it would be nice enough if i got .

i've read it so how can i ?