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. Which line from Lincoln’s "Gettysburg Address" appeals to the audience’s emotions in a similar way?
Answer
A
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.
B
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
C
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
D
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.
Explanation
Whitman’s lines appeal to emotion by vividly recalling the Captain’s death and the bloodshed. Choice A similarly evokes the deaths of soldiers by referring to those who “gave their lives” so the nation might live. The other choices focus mainly on the war’s purpose, the significance of the soldiers’ actions, or the nation’s founding.
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