You determine if the evidence is relevant and if it directly answers the writing prompt when writing your essay by seeing if any quotes are relevant to the question or explains or possibly gives any background.
The sentence is drawing a parallel between the two parties' reasons for going to war. Each of them is associated with a verb: one with "survive," the other with "perish." They are the two antonyms.
Antonyms are words which have opposite meanings. <em>Survive </em>means to contine living, and <em>perish </em>means to stop living.
What Lincoln meant by using this antonym-based parallelism is that the Confederacy fought to end the exisiting nation (meaning, to secede from the North and create a new nation), while the Union fought to keep the nation alive by preventing it from splitting.
Unlike thesis statements, topic sentences can be questions that your paragraphs<span> answer. A topic sentence presents the main point for a paragraph and gives your readers a clear idea of what the individual paragraph is about. Ideally, your topic sentences should relate to your thesis statement.</span>
Answer:
4.) assonance
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