Expository writings is explaining something you need coheronce
<span>Lincoln uses parallelism in this excerpt to acknowledge the limitations of the memorial ceremony. In this excerpt, it is parallelism because he instilled the words side by side such as dedicate and consecrate, living and dead, add or detract to clearly emphasize that what the men did will forever remain as time will pass by.</span>
Even though I never read the text based on when I read questions I think it's is C
C. to give human traits to nonhuman things