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.
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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

April does not let things interrupt her goals, she just continues on until she gets what she wants. complete, run on or comma splice

Time remaining 59: 46 which central idea should be included in a paraphrase of this excerpt? read the excerpt from the odyssey. out to sea again! ' my men were mutinous, fools, on stores of wine. sheep after sheep they butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle, feasting.-while fugitives went inland, running to call to arms the main force of cicones this was an army, trained to fight on horseback or, where the ground required, on foot. they came with dawn over that terrain like the leaves and blades of spring. so doom appeared to us, dark word of zeus for us, our evil days. the forces sent by cicones to fight odysseus and his men arrived during the early morning hours. odysseus and his men feasted on the animals they slaughtered while on the island of cicones the forces sent by cicones to stop the plundering of odysseus and his men were skilled and powerful odysseus views the forces sent by cicones as punishment from the greek god zeus. mark this and retum save and exit save and exit next sub subunit

Martin luther king jr often spoke of a day in the future when he hoped that his children would be judged not by their skin color but instead by their character. write a narrative essay about a moment in your life when you were judged by something other than the content of your character. use narrative techniques to develop experiencies, events, and characters