A. Purpose
You have to know what and why you are writing before you can make a plan to write.
Assuming that the question is related to Abraham Lincoln´s 1865 speech, in the Second Inaugural Adress, in short words, what he is trying to say is that if difficulties come from God, is because there is something wrong that should be corrected, that there is something that needs to be fixed, therefore, the evidence that he quotes is that slavery as it is something wrong in the sense that it was one of the reasons for war, then it needed to be corrected, the war was the way to fix this matter.
William Caxton was the first English person to work as a printer
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A hoax can generate and change by people hearing the story and adding there own twists to it to make the story more interesting than sharing the story to others and the cycle continues
The poet is using a metaphor. Your answer is correct.