The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. which rhetorical device does thomas paine use in this excerpt from the american crisis?

simile
metaphor
parallelism
personification

C) Parallelism.

Explanation: parallelism is a literary device that consists in the repetition of the grammatical structure of different words or phrases in a sentence or paragraph, in order to emphasize an idea or to create an impact in the audience. In the given excerpt we can see an example of the use of parallelism, because it repeats the use of pair of words with contrary meaning (the far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor).

c. when the head chef asks the applicants to make any creative dish they like (i did the usatestprep)

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.