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

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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.

A
He reminds the living of the sacrifices that the dead made for them.
B
He reminds people that they still have a lot of work ahead of them.
C
He reminds people that progress has been made.
D
He tells people that they will have to dedicate their time.
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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.

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.

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