"if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? " which rhetorical element is included in this passage from president lincoln's second inaugural address? (5 points) select one: a. ethos b. theme c. logos d. thesis

The correct answer is A) Ethos.

The rhetorical element that is included in this passage from President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address is Ethos.

In this portion of his Second Inaugural Address, President Abraham Lincoln is trying to use ethos to appeal to its audience. Ethos is the ethical appeal that uses the credibility of the speaker to convince the audience. In this case, Lincoln ideas and reputation were are credible sources. The other two modes that are aimed to convince audiences are pathos and logos. Pathos is the appeal to emotion to convince an audience and logos is the appeal to the reason, to use logic.

agamemnon was the leader of the greek troops in the trojan wars and orestes was his son. when agamemnon returned from the war, he was murdered by his wife's lover in conjunction with his wife. orestes could not stop them but he seeked vengeance for his father. after a long time, he found them and avenged his father while killing them. he killed his mother, but greek mythology claims that his act was just and he was spared the remorse and the guilt. there are a lot of similarities with the ulysses/telemachus father son pair. ulysses was also one of the leaders of the excursion to troy. he still has not returned home, but in a sense the suitors of penelope are marring his estate and his reputation. while penelope is faithful to ulysses, the suitors by taking hold of the palace and committing their shameful acts are dishonoring ulysses. in the same context, telemachus is asked just like orestes to restitution his father's honor, regardless of whether he is alive or dead. athena is him and encouraging him with this example and he himself feels the need to save his father

i think it is c. good luck!