With malice toward none, with charity for all, with
firmness in the right as god gives us to see the right, let
us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the
nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the
battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which
may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations.
-second inaugural address,
abraham lincoln
how does lincoln's use of parallel structure in this
passage affect the speech?
it distracts the listener from the topic.
it stresses the importance of unity.
it compares the war to a doctor's work.
o it makes the sentence longer than the rest.