This Dust Was Once the Man This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States

Walt Whitman

What is the word just most likely an allusion to?

Lincoln's career as a lawyer
Lincoln's death at war's end
Whitman's war reporting
Whitman's poem writing

The answer is A (Lincolns career as a lawyer)

Explanation: I belive its the first option because resolute means admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering which are all adjectives most likley describing a lawyer. "just" can also mean based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair. Im 100% certain this is reffering to lincolns carrer as a lawyer.

the correct answer would be d, i never like waking up.

explanation:

iambic tetrameter is a meter which is basically a line consisting of four feet of iambic and it is used in poetry. it consists of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. in this question, the only statement which is giving the feel of being stressed is option d, which says that i never like waking up. it means the person is feeling stressed whenever he wakes up. he never likes to wake up and and whenever he wakes up, he doesn't like it. so a sense or feel of being stressed is in this statement.  

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

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