What figure of speech has been used in this line from the waste land by t. s. eliot? winter kept us warm, covering earth in forgetful snow, feeding a little life with dried tubers

In a short story the narrator's word choice

What point was thomas paine trying to make by relating this antidote

[v]ast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging . . which satirical element is most dominant in the passage above?