The correct answer is A) us; indirect object.
The pronoun has to be us because we are looking for an object, and we is a pronoun used for a subject.
Also, it is indirect object because when there are two objects in a sentence, the rule is that the first object is indirect, and it is followed by a direct object. The direct object in this sentence is the old newspapers, which means that the indirect object is John and us.
The correct answer is the statement that reads: “Lincoln argues that the war is a punishment to both the North and South for allowing slavery to exist for so long, reminding the Northerners not to put all the blame on the South”. Near the end of the Civil War, Lincoln delivered his <em>Second Inaugural Address</em> (1865) and he argued that the conflict that was happening (Civil War) was an offence to God and <u>a “divine” punishment for the sin of slavery</u> that both the North and South have tolerated. In his speech, one can spot Lincoln’s argument when he says: “If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?”.
B: Blank verse
Epic poems typically have a regular meter but do not rhyme. Blank verse is metered, often in iambic pentameter, but unrhymed. A good example is John Milton's Paradise Lost.
The other options are not good choices because:
A: free verse does not have meter while epics usually do
C: rhymed verse is not common in epics - they are not rhymed
D: trochaic meter is a different meter that is much less common than iambic pentameter
