Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and Pericles' "Funeral Oration" are both speeches that clearly depict similar and diverse elements. To begin with, Lincoln and Pericles both express tone in similar ways. . In order to encourage his exhausted and desperate soldiers and their families, in addition to emphasizing the fallen, Lincoln needed to express his tone explicitly and sympathetically in the "Gettysburg Address." To do this, Lincoln begins his speech with “Eighty-seven years ago our fathers brought into existence on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the position that all men are created equal.” Because the exact opposite persisted during this era, Lincoln said this to remind the soldiers of what they were fighting for. Likewise, in a solemn tone, Pericles also tries to capture attention by introducing the past. He attempts to achieve this by exalting the ancestors of Athens. Which is obvious since it begins with the words “I will begin with our ancestors”. In the second paragraph he states that they lived in the land from time to time without failure, and for this reason it is appropriate that they be mentioned first when honoring the dead. Additionally, throughout the “Gettysburg Address” and “Funeral Oration” we find several types of rhetorical devices. In the “Gettysburg Address,” Lincoln employs many rhetorical devices such as repetition, alliteration, and metaphors. He introduces repetition twice in the speech. First, he introduces it with the words “we cannot consecrate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot sanctify this ground.” With the duplication of the word "cannot", Lincoln states that they are not able to consecrate, consecrate, or in other words, sanctify the ground in the middle of a paper. ...the public that they should fight for their freedom. To conclude, “The Gettysburg Address” and “The Funeral Oration” have comparable elements such as tone, forms of rhetorical devices, and themes that are both similar and diverse. They take place in different places and at different times. They also have different objectives to succeed in continuing the war. Although they have different ways of convincing, they both have the desire to continue the war, because it must be won. It must absolutely be won so that the countries of both eras can live freely, without fear of slavery. Both also affirm the goal of honoring those who have accepted the risk of death, so that we can be free and live in freedom. As Thomas Jefferson once said, the natural progress of things is that liberty yields and government gains ground...