Analyze the rhetoric — the oratorical art — of the second paragraph. What, for instance, is gained by saying “five score years ago” instead of “a hundred years ago”? By metaphorically calling the...

Analyze the rhetoric — the oratorical art — of the second paragraph. What, for instance, is gained by saying “five score years ago” instead of “a hundred years ago”? By metaphorically calling the Emancipation Proclamation “a great beacon light of hope”? By saying that “Negro slaves … had been seared in the flames of withering injustice”? And what of the metaphors “daybreak” and “the long night of … captivity”?