Gettysburg address and others

Gettysburg address and others

1.What is Gettysburg address?

• most famous
• most quoted
• most recited 
• one of the shortest

Only 10 statements in the speech

1.anchor your arguement solidly

        Anchor your arguement to statements which our audience believe in.

        eg:Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, coceived in liberty, and                             dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

2. Employ classic rhetorical devices 运用经典修辞手法

eg：and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

     parallelism: any, let us, let, both, to, verb +noun, let both sides, pp.

3. Repeat your most important words

    decide several key words and repeat them

4. Use a simple outline

   past-present-future

5. State a clear call-to-action

 "be dedicated here to the unfinished work" to not let those who died to "hace died in vain"——Linkon