Choose the sentence fragment. a. dew glistened on the tiny green leaves of the young plants. b. although some of the seeds had already sprouted, these hadn't. c. a small herd of buffalo grazed in the valley below us. d. the wind, cold and powerful, sweeping through the city, and some trees felling power lines.

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this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,

answer: from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people

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