The definition of rhetoric is best interpreted by Gerard A. Hauser through his declaration that rhetoric uses persuasion and communication to create change. After the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a compelling speech called “The Gettysburg Address" in which Lincoln expressed the dire need to create change throughout the United States by evoking emotions through the rhetorical appeal of pathos. Hauser’s definition of rhetoric supports Lincoln’s speech since Lincoln purposefully uses pathos in his speech to communicate and evoke change within a separated nation. By sympathizing with the American people, Lincoln’s use of rhetoric in his speech conveys a universal feeling of sorrow to the American people
