Question

Read the sentence from Thomas Paine’s The Crisis. “These are the times that try men’s souls.” What is this sentence an example of?

a. authoritative appeal
b. prudence
c. connotation
d. denotation

Answer 1

c. connotation

Step-by-step explanation:

When you use connotation, you imply something by saying something related and that can be infered with what you are saying, "This are the times that try men´s souls" he means to say that in war times men have to be brave and fight fiercely, and he makes a connotation by sayin "try the men´s souls"