One of the rhetorical devices that stands out that Lincoln uses throughout his second inaugural speech is the Aristotelian appeal of pathos, in which he attempts to sway his audience through the emotions. Lincoln does so by referencing religion and God in a few paragraphs, and states that “Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God”, which is attempting to emotionally affect the audience by showing how even though the US is currently split into two entities and they are at war, the people of the United States, regardless of their differences, are all similar. In addition, Lincoln uses the pronoun “we” multiple times throughout his speech to exemplify the similarities between the people of the United States and just how unified they
