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Excerpt from The Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

4 But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate ... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow this ground.

What is the rhetorical device Lincoln uses in the first sentence of paragraph four?
A) allusion
B) ethos
C) onomatopoeia
D) parallel structure

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D, parallel structure
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The answer is D, parallel structure.
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