โ๐ฝAP English Language
โ๐ฝAP English Language
FRQ 2 โ Rhetorical Analysis
Practice FRQ 1 of 1651/165
2. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States, leading the nation during the American Civil War. In 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order declaring the freedom of enslaved people in Confederate-held territory. The following is an excerpt from that proclamation.
Read the passage carefully. Write an essay that analyzes the rhetorical choices Lincoln makes to convey his official decree regarding the status of enslaved persons and the duties of the executive government.
In your response you should do the following:
- Respond to the prompt with a thesis that analyzes the writer's rhetorical choices.
- Select and use evidence to support your line of reasoning.
- Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the rhetorical situation.
- Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
