Out of Many, One: Rhetoric in The Gettysburg Address and "O Captain! My Captain!"
Question 6 • Common Core ELA 11 - ELA3011 IC
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.
Answer
A
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
B
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
C
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
D
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.