Question

Read this excerpt from Common Sense: The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak. What kind of figurative language does Thomas Paine use here?

A. Personification
B. Diction
C. Simile
D. Ethos

Answer 1

The figurative language Thomas Paine used in the above excerpt is C. SIMILE.

Simile is comparing two different things. Simile uses the word "like" to do the comparison.

The two different things in the excerpt are fracture and name. The clue of using Simile as a figurative language is found in this phrase "now will be like.."