<span>The purpose of the figurative language in this excerpt </span>from The Crisis, Number I is to make the audience feel that being a self-centered and a person who refuses to speak about anything for the good of the common people is cruel and cold hearted. It is shown in this phrase "curse his cowardice who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole".
Answer:A biography is a documentary of a person's life from start to finish. So the answer is chronological order.
Explanation:
Plot : What is the sequence of events in the story?
Characters: What do we learn about the boy whom the story is about?
Point of View: Is the boy telling the story or is an outside narrator telling the story?
Theme: What does the author want us to learn from the story?
Setting: Where does the boy live?