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.
Answer: a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing
Explanation:
I think it would be isolated
Context clues!! Rereading the surrounding text can give a reader hints about the meaning of the unknown word.
Answer:
internal conflicts are basically man vs self, The character has problems that only the character knows about.
external conflicts are like, man vs man, or man vs society
