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Identify one type of literary/rhetorical device in the gettysburg adress and provide an example of that device.

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Archaic Language

Lincoln opens the speech with archaic language, the phrase "four score and seven." Using archaic language, or language older than is used in daily life, is a rhetorical marker. This phrase signals that what follows will be distinct from daily discourse because the language used is special and elevated.

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