Through many years of controversy with our late associates, the Northern States, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled.
Answer:
A. To persuade readers that the war should never happen.
Answer:
The answer is D
Explanation:
It is the only line centered around death and the main focus (being the captain) and it's just mostly obvious context clues. Don't stress out the poems, they're easy if you don't think too hard on them.
People don't have feathers so D is not an option. Alliteration is the repetition of the same beginning sound in a group of words so that also is not an option. Simile uses like or as - not an option. Metaphor is a comparison of two different things, hope to a bird (thing with feathers). B is correct.
