1.4.2 review: the american revolution
• 1.2.8 prepare annotations
how is figurative language used in this excerpt from common sense?
now is the seed-time of continental union, faith and honor. the
least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of
a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge
with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.
a. paine uses a simile to explain how important it is that everyone in the
colonies support the goal of forming a new country independent of
britain
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b. paine uses a metaphor to encourage the audience to come together and
support the authors of the declaration of independence.
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c. paine uses a metaphor to explain to the british people why the colonists
are declaring independence.
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d. paine uses a simile to make his audience think about how splitting from
britain would have lasting and painful consequences.