from Gettysburg Address
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this
continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged
in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so
conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a
great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion
of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their
lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper
that we should do this. 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. 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. It is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that
from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that
cause for which they here gave the last full measure of
devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new
birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Select the correct answer.
What is tone of the passage?
OO
A. hopeful
○ B.
worried
○ C.
passionate
OD. respectful