Question

abraham lincolns gettysburg address
four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met here on a great battlefield of that war. we have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
but, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. it is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
which best describes the development of the passage as a whole?

1. the references to the past, present and future indicate chronological organization.
2. the significance of the battle indicates organization by order of importance.
3. the allusion to the founding fathers and the past shows organization by comparison and contrast.
4. the reasons given for the war indicate cause and effect organizational pattern.

Explanation:

• Analyze Option 1: The passage starts with "four score and seven years ago" (past), then talks about the current civil war (present), and ends with "new birth of freedom" and the future of the nation (future), showing chronological organization.
• Analyze Option 2: The passage is not mainly about the battle's significance in order of importance.
• Analyze Option 3: There's no comparison/contrast between the founding fathers and others; it's more about past - present - future.
• Analyze Option 4: The passage doesn't focus on reasons for the war as a cause - effect pattern.

Answer:

1. The references to the past, present and future indicate chronological organization.