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(What figure of speech does Crane use to describe the bombardment of the meadow? Is it effective? Why or why not? )
"For the little meadow which intervened was now suffering a terrible onslaught of shells. It's green and beautiful calm had vanished utterly. Brown earth was being flung in monstrous handfuls. And there was a massacre of the young blades of grass. They were being torn, burned, obliterated. Some curious little fortune of battle had made this gentle little meadow the object of the red hate of the shells, and each one as it exploded seemed like and imprecation in the face of a maiden,"

Answer 1

Crane uses personification frequently throughout this excerpt. He uses it to create images that vividly describe how Henry sees both the war and his surroundings in relationship to himself.

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Answer 2

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions