Read the excerpt from abraham lincoln second inaugural address march 4, 1865 president lincoln gave his second inaugural address in march 1865.

on the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. all dreaded it, all sought to avert it. while the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the union and divide effects by negotiation. both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.

part a how does lincoln's use of the words anxiously, dreaded, and destroy affect the paragraph?

a) they give the paragraph a controlled and objective tone.

b) they give the paragraph an informal and personal tone.

c)they give the paragraph an intense and foreboding tone.

d) they give the paragraph an angry and vicious tone.

part b how do the tone identified in part a and lincoln's repeated use of the word all advance his purpose in the paragraph?

they convey the widespread sense of doubt regarding the chances of victory in the war.

they explain the broadly held view of war as a serious event that could easily have been avoided.

they clarify the universal dread of war felt by both sides even while engaging in it.

they show the general agreement to aggressively pursue national goals through war.

The first answer is A for the second question the best answer is C

Part A- The correct answer is C. Lincoln's use of the words anxiously, dreaded, and destroy give the paragraph an intense and foreboding tone.

Lincoln uses these words to give his speech a tone of reproach to the attitudes of those who, as he mentions, sought to unleash war. He speaks from a conciliatory position, but emphasizing that there were people who sought to harm the nation.

Part B- The tone identified in Part A and Lincoln's repeated use of the word all advance his purpose of explaining the broadly held view of war as a serious event that could easily have been avoided, if both the fear and the desire to avoid the conflict had prevailed over the interests that caused the Civil War to break out.

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explanation:

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.