Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and Pericles' "Funeral Oration" are both speeches that clearly describe similar and different components. To start, Lincoln and Pericles both express tone in similar ways. To encourage his exhausted and hopeless soldiers and families, as well as emphasize the deceased, Lincoln needed to set his tone with an explicit and benevolent approach in the “Gettysburg Address.” To do this, Lincoln begins his speech with "Four-five and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the position that all men are created equal." Since exactly the opposite was happening at the time, Lincoln states this to remind the soldiers what they are fighting for. Similarly, by using a solemn tone, Pericles also attempts to capture attention by introducing the past. He tries to do so by exalting the ancestors of Athens. Which is obvious because it begins with the words “I will begin with our ancestors.” In the second paragraph he states that they dwelt in the country from time to time without interruption, and for this reason it is fitting that they should be mentioned for the first time whenever they honor the fallen. Furthermore, different types of rhetorical devices are found throughout the “Gettysburg Address” and “Funeral Oration.” In the “Gettysburg Address” Lincoln employs many rhetorical devices such as repetition, alliteration, and metaphor. Introduces repetition twice into the speech. First of all he introduces it with the words "we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot sanctify this ground". By duplicating the word “cannot,” Lincoln states that they are unable to dedicate, consecrate, or in other words sanctify the ground...... middle of paper......es the public they are supposed to fight for their freedom. To conclude, “The Gettysburg Address” and “The Funeral Oration” have similar and different components such as tone, forms of rhetorical devices, and themes. They take place in different places and in different periods of time. They also have different goals to get to the point of continuing the war. Although they have different ways of convincing, both have the need to continue the war, because it must be won. It absolutely must be won, so that the countries of both periods can live freely, without fear of being reduced to slavery. Both also affirm the purpose of honoring those who accepted the risk of dying, so that we might be free and live in freedom. As Thomas Jefferson once said, the natural progression of things is for liberty to give way and for government to gain ground.