Answer: to stress that the majority of people are concerned about drones
Explanation:
Analyzing the following expressions:
The expressions above are oxymorons, meaning that they put together words whose meaning are contrasting. We would assume that, if something or someone is pretty, they cannot be ugly; if something is true, it cannot be a lie.
That, however, is not the real purpose of this rhetorical device. The apparent contradiction mentioned above is precisely that: apparent. It does make sense in context because the first word serves as an intensifier of the second word.
We can observe that in the following examples:
- The bruise on his leg after the accident was pretty ugly.
- I can't believe she said that to you! Those are true lies.
In both instances, the first words of the oxymoron are intensifying the second one. The cut wasn't merely ugly, it was very ugly. "Pretty" does not keep its original meaning in this context.
The same happens with the word "true". The lies told were extremely obvious. "True" does not keep its original meaning either.
These lines signify the victory in the civil war of the Union.
Explanation:
These lines by Walt Whitman were eulogizing Abraham Lincoln after his death.
These lines start by relating that the battle that they were fighting in his leadership is now won,
The battle here is the civil war.
This is described by the narrative strategy of metaphor in which the ship is the Union force and the sea is the war and the war was now won but the captain of the ship who is supposed to be Lincoln is no longer there so the victory does not seem to him complete.
