Match each description to the type of detail it provides.

Fact b. Quotation c. example d. Definition e. Concrete detail

____ 1. Lincoln served in several ways as Whig Party Leader, Illinois state legislator, and Congressman.
____ 2. The Whigs were one of two major political parties in the 1840s.
____ 3. Lincoln was born in 1809.
____ 4. As a young man, he tended to stoop to hide his unusual height.
____ 5. Henry Ward Beecher described him as “an unshapely man.”

1. Fact

2. Fact
3. Fact
4. Concrete detail
5. Quotation