Read the excerpt from the the crisis, number i.“not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some time or other finally take place.”which best describes paine’s use of figurative language in this excerpt? paine uses hyperbole to emphasize that there is strong colonial support for american independence.paine uses metaphor to illustrate why america must gain independence from britain.paine uses hyperbole to describe the ways in which independence will benefit most of the colonists.paine uses metaphor to express the fact that the majority of colonists believe in american independence.

A.Paine uses hyperbole to emphasize that there is strong colonial support for American independence.

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i think it would be c. or a. i recommend a if it's not a than it's c if it's not c than it's b your welcome : ) sorry if you get it wrong

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.