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ocaptain my captain and the gettysburg adress
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English
8th Grade
01/24/2011

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endure
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to carry on survive
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proposition
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plan or proposal
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detract
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take away from reduce the value of
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hallow
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make or honor as holy
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pharase in vain
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no good reason or purpose
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gettysburg adress

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four score and seven years ago our father brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal
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gettysburg adress

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and this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth
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what does the phrase the ship has weathered every rack mean
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ship has come through many storms and has survived
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what is the difference between end rhyme and internal rhyme
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end rhyme is rhymes at the end and internall rhyme rhymes in the sentence
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what does exulting mean
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filled with joy
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who is the poem about and why was it written
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 abe lincolon and to honor his death
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what is a steady keel
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straight even course
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the word captain is a metaphor for
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president lincoln
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the phrase the ship is a metaphor for
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america usa
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the poem is an elegy what is an elegy
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poem that honors a dead person
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what historical event inspired whitman to write the poem
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death of abe lincoln
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o captain my captain
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but i heart heart heart

o the bleeding drops of red

where on the deck my captain lies

fallen cold and dead

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