Read the sentence from paragraph 3 of the speech. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. Understatement is an author's technique that creates emphasis by saying less than is literally true about a topic. What is the effect of President Lincoln's use of understatement about the impact of his speech? To point out the limits of human memory To point out that the battle was unusually horrific To note that the world does not care about the Civil War To stress the importance of the sacrifice of the Civil War soldiers