I believe the answer is D.
He wishes the reader<span>/ listener to muster their forces for the affray for . ... our keeping your country, that the men in the War now </span>have<span> cut flowers .</span>
To introduce what the paragraph is going to be about
False, it was published in 1722, " on the other side" was published in 1485 was the first English novel, written by Le Morte d'Arthur.
Metaphor which in Greek means transference. It is when use adjectives or descriptions saying that something is something. It is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects. It is a figure of speech that compares two or more things not using like or as.