Read the following excerpt from Paine's Common Sense: It matters not where you live,
or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.
Paine uses this statement to point out: - ✔✔the potential
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Read the following excerpt from Paine's Common Sense: It matters not where you live,
or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.
Paine uses this statement to point out: - ✔✔the potential for universal benefit or
universal calamity.
Which of the following best describes the speaker's tone in the following lines: "Failing
to fetch me at first keep encouraged, / Missing me one place search another"? -
✔✔Inviting
In the following sentence, "comports" would best be replaced by _____.
Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these warlike
preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. - ✔✔corresponds
With his line "Ye men of Pennsylvania, do reason upon these things!" Paine appears to
be: - ✔✔instructing people to see the logic in his argument.
Which additional clause would best fit into the following list from the passage?
Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence
and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with
contempt, from the foot of the throne! - ✔✔Our requests have been rejected.
The old man's frequent references to God serve primarily to: - ✔✔show the full
implications of calling on God to choose sides in a war.
What message is conveyed to the reader through the allusions to Shakespeare,
Franklin, Washington, Bacon, and Newton? - ✔✔Greatness is achieved only by trusting
one's unique path and unique gifts.
In the first paragraph of the passage, the writer employs all of the following EXCEPT
______. - ✔✔simile
In the first paragraph, the reference to the Mexican war serves primarily to function as a
comparison that illustrates:
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