1.4.2 Review: The American Revolution
• 1.2.8 Prepare Annotations
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.
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
O
B. Paine uses a metaphor to encourage the audience to come together and
support the authors of the Declaration of Independence.
O
C. Paine uses a metaphor to explain to the British people why the colonists
are declaring independence.
O
D. Paine uses a simile to make his audience think about how splitting from
Britain would have lasting and painful consequences.