Question

question 7 of 10
read this excerpt from common sense:

if we omit the chance for a new government now...
massanello... may sweep away the liberties of the
continent like a deluge.

what kind of figurative language does thomas paine use here?

a. personification
b. parallelism
c. simile
d. rhetorical question

Explanation:

A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two distinct things using the words "like" or "as". In the excerpt, Thomas Paine compares Massanello's potential takeover of liberties to a deluge using the word "like", which matches the definition of a simile. Personification gives human traits to non-human things, parallelism uses repeated grammatical structures, and a rhetorical question is an unasked-for-answer question, none of which apply here.

Answer:

C. Simile