Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number IV. Shall a band of ten or twelve thousand robbers, who are this day fifteen hundred or
two thousand men less in strength than they were yesterday, conquer America, or subdue even a single state? The thing cannot be, unless we sit down and suffer them to do it. In this excerpt, Paine uses a rhetorical device to encourage readers to feel anger and contempt for the British troops. fear negative outcomes in future battles. have a higher opinion of the British troops. feel proud of American forces.
From the passage given above, Paine uses a rhetorical device to encourage readers to feel anger and contempt for the British troops. He described the British troop as band of robbers who were decreasing in strength. His choice of words is aimed to evoke feeling of anger and contempt for the British troop.<span />
