In A the author in only affirming a fact. In C he describes some remembrance and in D he is declaring something positive about his soul and overcoming hesitation. But in B he mentions <em>"darkness", "peering" "wondering</em>" and <em>"fearing"</em>, all leading to to anxiety and making the reader keep interest and antecipation for the outcome.
The correct answer is B
A. It is a vivid description that creates a picture or image in a readers mind
The correct answer is D) I wonder if they will even exist for my children
The part of the excerpt that supports the claim that Paine believed the
human cost of the colonists' armed struggle against the British was well
worth the struggle might be 'Let it be told to the future world, that
in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,
that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth
to meet and to repulse it.'
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