Out of Many, One: Rhetoric in The Gettysburg Address and "O Captain! My Captain!"

Question 1

Read these lines from Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!."Where on the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln has tragically died.

Question 2

Read these lines from "O Captain! My Captain!".O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;Rise up – for you the flag is flung – for you the bugle trills;For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths – for you the shores a-crowding;For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The people of the country are celebrating Lincoln’s victory.

Question 3

Read these lines from "O Captain! My Captain!".O the bleeding drops of red,Where on the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Whitman compares Lincoln’s tragic death to a captain lying dead on the deck of his ship.

Question 4

Read Lincoln’s statement from "The Gettysburg Address."It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

He reminds the living of the sacrifices that the dead made for them.

Question 5

Question is locked

Revolt · Accepted Answer

pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings

Question 6

Read this excerpt from Lincoln’s "The Gettysburg Address."But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate – we cannot consecrate – we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;

Question 7

Read Lincoln’s statement from "The Gettysburg Address."But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate – we cannot consecrate – we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

by repeating how people cannot make the land as sacred as the soldiers have.

Question 8

Read Lincoln’s statement from "The Gettysburg Address."It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

clarifies that people have to continue the work of the soldiers.

Question 9

Read Lincoln’s statement from "The Gettysburg Address."The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The progress made by the soldiers has more impact than words.

Question 10

Read these lines from Whitman’s "O Captain! My Captain!".But O heart! heart! heart!O the bleeding drops of red,Where on the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live.

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