Read the following passage from lincoln's "gettysburg address" "but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we can not hallow--this ground." which sentence represents a reason in support of the claim made in the passage? a. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far, above our poor power to add or detract. b. the word will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. c. we have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that nation might live. d. it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

Based on this excerpt the authors are most likely to attempt to answer which question

What are the effects of parallel structure in this excerpt? check all that apply. it adds emphasis to the verbs that describe the british government’s oppression. it uses repetition to add power to the colonists’ growing list of grievances. it stresses jefferson’s list of grievances, giving the reader a sense of the amount of time the colonists have been oppressed. it emphasizes that all of these acts were carried out by the same person.

Which excerpt from the war of the worldseffectively reveals how the author relates the climax of the narrative through the narrator's thoughts? the war of the worldsall this had happened with such swiftness that i had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light. had that death swept through a full circle, it must inevitably have slain me in my surprise. but it passed and spared me, and left the night about me suddenly dark and unfamiliar. and then, with a renewed horror, i saw a round, black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit. it was the head of the shopman who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun. at that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the thing had come from the planet mars, but i judged it improbable that it contained any living creature. i thought the unscrewing might be automatic. my mind ran fancifully on the possibilities of its containing manuscript, on the difficulties in translation that might arise, whether we should find coins and models in it, and so forth. yet it was a little too large for assurance on this idea. i felt an impatience to see it opened.