He used a metaphor with the line “In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check.”
“cash a check” means “take advantage of America's promise of opportunity.”
Metaphor is a figure of language that produces figurative meanings through comparative statements.
The total number of victims is estimated at about 22,000. The victims were
executed in the Katyn forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons, and
elsewhere. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during
the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, and
the rest were arrested Polish Intellegentsia who the Soviets considered to be
"intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers,
officials and priests"
A reason to leave a place
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Answer:
The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America.
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