PLZ HELP ME QUICK AS POSSIBLE read the following excerpt. Then, identify and explain the type of figurative language being used
out the following: an allusion, hyperboe, simile or a metaphor. "there is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. its hazards are hostile to us all. its conquest deserve the best of all mankind, and it opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say the moon? Why choose this as our goal? and they may welll ask why climb the highest mountain? why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? why does rice play Texas?"
I think Percy wrote this so the current and future colonists would have a record of life in Jamestown in the beginning, so that they could learn from those who came before them