I think that is “none of these” since a plot is a sequence of event in a story and each causes or lead to the next. Events of the plot reveal a problem called the conflict.
Is there a story along with this? We need a story to do something.
Either way, my guess is that they see themselves in it.
Foreshadowing means to give hints of the future. Like in "A Tale of two cities" by Charles Dickens, a man writes "Blood" on the wall, that word represents that there's probably a war coming.
To answer the question above the major point of Thomas Paine is to encourage and inspire the army and more people to join the cause and the fight. Paine uses emotional ideologies and phrases for the colonist to have reasons why they deserve to be freed from the tyranny.
