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.
What effect does Lincoln's use of parallel structure have on the speech?
b
It distracts the listener from the topic of the Civil War.
It compares the war to a doctor's work fixing the injured.
It stresses the importance of being united as a country.
It helped him reach the word count for his speech.
C
Od