Will give read the passage and answer the question that follows. chief joseph's surrender speech, october 5, 1877 by chief joseph tell general howard i know his heart. what he told me before, i have it in my heart. i am tired of fighting. our chiefs are killed; looking glass is dead, ta hool hool shute is dead. the old men are all dead. it is the young men who say yes or no. he who led on the young men is dead. it is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. my people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. no one knows where they are—perhaps freezing to death. i want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them i can find. maybe i shall find them among the dead. hear me, my chiefs! i am tired; my heart is sick and sad. from where the sun now stands i will fight no more forever. what impact does the repetition of the phrase "is dead" have on the passage? a it emphasizes the loss of leadership among chief joseph's people. b it acknowledges the superiority of chief joseph's enemies. c it points to the defiant spirit of chief joseph and his people. d it is meant to inspire the audience to take revenge on chief joseph's enemies.

A) It emphasizes the loss of leadership among Chief Joseph's people.

Explanation: repetition is a literary device that consists in repeating certain words or phrases in a sentence or paragraph, in order to create an impact in the reader. In the given passage from Chief Joseph's Surrender Speech we can see the repetition of the word "dead" which has the impact of emphasizing the loss of leadership among Chief Joseph's people, and this is what led him to surrender.

the correct answer is option d. the nature of democracy. on november 19, 1863, president abraham lincoln delivered his famous gettysburg address in gettysburg, pennsylvania. in his speech, rather than focusing on details of the war (soldiers, casualties, aftermath of battle), lincoln invoked the very nature of democracy, that power ultimately comes from the people, when stating, “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish”. these words mean that democracy is a government by the people (citizens) in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by the people or by their elected representatives for the benefit of all citizens. the survival of democracy in the united states is one of the reasons why this speech so significant today.