Read this excerpt from the crisis, number iv. it is distressing to see an enemy advancing into a country, but it is the only place in which we can beat them, and in which we have always beaten them, whenever they made the attempt. the nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. danger and deliverance make their advances together, and it is only the last push, in which one or the other takes the lead. how does the use of figurative language in this excerpt support paine's message?
a) the figurative language readers visualize life during wartime for the colonists.
b)the figurative language readers understand that fighting for freedom is an urgent matter.
c)the figurative language readers understand the psychological effects of war on the colonists.
d)the figurative language readers visualize the battles of the revolutionary war.

The third alternative is correct (C).

The figurative reading occurs when the words or expressions acquire particular situations of use. The word has a connotative value when its meaning is amplified or altered in the context in which it is employed, suggesting ideas that go beyond its usual meaning. This is the opposite of the literal sense, which has only one meaning, which is exactly scripted.

Obviously, the readers of the passage did not participate in the war, therefore, they do not have the exact psychological meaning that it represents. The narrator demonstrates his feelings of insecurity and fear in describing the proximity of enemies and the sense of hope of defeating them as before.

In this context, the narrator uses a closer comparison of the reader, comparing the war with an even more similar experience for the reader. The fact that a disease exists and the certainty that you have the possibility to cure it.