Lincoln begins the Gettysburg Address with the phrase: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty.…” Which answer best explains Lincoln’s purpose in choosing such formal language? a. It lightens the solemnity of the occasion by adding some humor.

b. It adds majesty and weight to the speech and to the occasion.

c. It delivers factual detail that adds logic to his speech.

d. It conceals the real meaning of his words

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the examples that saki used to represent satire through situational irony are options two (2) and five (5) inasmuch as the wolf thought that looking for a girl in the bushes could be as easy as hunting little pigs at the park, but it took him so much time to find the girl if it had not been not for a silly mistake. also, bertha would have survived to the wolf's hunt if she had not won those medals for goodness, which at the end they were what got her killed by making noise, so winning medals of goodness was not so good achievement, after all.