Lincoln should have talked more about some of the struggles of slaves to appeal more to the pathos aspect of rhetoric. He also could have talked more about religion and tell specific stories from slave’s lives’.
If Lincoln’s speech only appealed to ethos, not everyone would be affected or moved by what he was saying, only the people who had the strongest appeal to ethos. Speakers need to appeal to all form of rhetoric. Rhetorics typically provide heuristics for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations.
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