The figurative language used here is METAPHOR
By likening the rack to a teeter totter, the writer creates a picture of how the massive rack was moving; showing that the rack was <span>rocking back and forth </span>like how a teeter totter would move if someone had been playing on it.
In June 1812, the United States declared war against Great Britain in reaction to three issues: the British economic blockade of France, the induction of thousands of neutral American seamen into the British Royal Navy against their will, and the British support of hostile Indian tribes along the Great Lakes frontier.
Ever since the first pioneers settled in the United States at the East , the country has been expanding westward. When President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from the French government in 1803, it doubled the size of the existing United States.
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