In “A Letter from Abigail Adams,” how does Adams use rhetoric to express the concept of dread about the approaching war? Select all that apply. A)Adams uses metaphor to describe her anxiety when she says, “The rocks and quicksands appear upon every side.”
B)Adams uses alliteration to describe the state of current affairs when she says, “What course you can or will take is all wrapped in the bosom of futurity.”
C)Adams uses simile to describe her optimism when she says, “I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and I have persuaded Johnny to read me a page or two every day, and hope he will, from his desire to oblige me, entertain a fondness for it.”
D)Adams uses analogy to describe the magnitude of pending events when she says, “The first of September, or the month of September, perhaps, may be of as much importance to Great Britain as the Ides of March were to Caesar.”