Which rhetorical device does Paine use in the following excerpt from Section of The Crisis? "the city and the country , alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and repulse it"

A. simile - a comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as"

B. personification - human attributes given to ideas or objects

C. parallelism - matching form, words, or phrases within a sentence

D. rhetorical question - a question given for effect and not expecting an answer