What rhetorical device is evident in the following
passage from Thomas Paine's
"The Crisis, No.1"?
Let it be told to the future
world, that in the depth of
winter, when nothing but
hope and virtue could survive,
that the city and the country,
alarmed at one common
danger, came forth to meet
and to repulse it.
A. allusion
B. common ground
C. logical appeal
D. emotional appeal

Imagine you are reading a story about a character named dray. dray is captain of the basketball team and practices for hours after school in order to achieve his goals of playing in the nba. one day, dray decides that he hates basketball. he quits the team and takes up knitting instead. what is the introduction of this new plot point is an example of a. an anticlimaxb. a conclusionc. a contrivanced. a climax

Read the claim. human bodies have developed over time to support a vegetarian diet. which sentence provides the best supporting evidence for the claim? because humans have evolved over millions of years, it makes sense that our diet has evolved as well. i can feel the negative effects of meat and its excess vitamins when i consume meat products. the length of human intestines is better suited to digest food derived from plants than to digest meat. human taste buds have matured throughout history in a way that makes people crave the flavor of meat.

How does this comparison reinforce what powell is trying to say in this paragraph