<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".
<u>Answer:</u>
<em>Lupe’s grandfather was not right when he did not allowed her to quit the school. </em>
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<u>Explanation:</u>
There are various factors which imagines the different decisions and the situations. Different approaches can be used for dealing with the situation instead of taking the decision of making her quit the school. Lupe’s grandfather was not right in this case and thus the passage describes the different aspect of teaching the view. The situation would have been handled in a "different way".
Designed to explore new directions in poetic language and style, and move away from the formal and highly stylized literature of the eighteenth century.