How can a speech gain complete resonance or acceptance from its audience in a short amount of time? Abraham Lincoln's most famous speech was a great example of winning the spirit of the public. The Gettysburg Address was delivered on November 19, 1863, after the Union won the Battle of Gettysburg. In the speech, Lincoln emphasized the importance and necessity of the Civil War, which, in his view, was still worth fighting, despite the horrors of war. Lincoln not only argued his point directly and listed several reasons to support it, but also skillfully applied the audience's growing patriotic emotion along with the speech. At the end of the speech, Lincoln successfully conveyed to his audience the passion to continue fighting the Civil War. By building his audience's feelings of loyalty and intensity and at the same time the climax of the speech, Lincoln's strong argument and expression allowed people to realize and remember what was worth fighting for: the Union. By fully capturing the minds and attention of the people, Lincoln heartened his audience, touched their deep emotions, and won the audience's resonance with him and his idea that this war is still worth fighting. Lincoln's conquest of the mindset of his audience begins at the very beginning of the speech, where he began with an allusion to build the basis of emotion for the entire speech, seriousness. “All men are created equal.” (35) The phrase from the Declaration of Independence prepares the audience for what comes next. The Declaration of Independence is not meant to entertain; the topic of the speech must be weighty and serious. Starting with a strong sentence immediately grabs your audience's attention. Also, to set the tone for the speech, Lincoln i...... center of card...... saving the Union. The use of parallelism was powerful especially when the speech was read aloud. The excitement in the words would shape and add to the aggressive emotion of the audience and bring it to the climax. When both the speech and the audience's emotion reach the climax, Lincoln already manages to win the audience's resonance with his argument. If Lincoln simply addressed his case to continue fighting the war without any emotional change in his audience, the audience would not be as fully affected by his speech. Lincoln "played" with the emotions of his audience to make them mentally agree and support Lincoln's argument from the inside. Regardless of whether the aggressive emotion was a whim or not, Lincoln was successful, at least at that time, in arguing that the Civil War is still worth fighting by controlling the public's emotions..