personification because it is giving a human action to a inanimate object
<span><span> a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging
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- C. ) Thomas Paine's purpose is to persuade his audience to persist in their course of action.
Patrick Henry's purpose is to exhort his audience to follow a new course of action.
I think it depends on what the risks, the situation, what the potential outcome is, and whoever you are asking and their morals. If you are in war and 50 old people, like in their 90s, are captured and the risks are you losing 10 out of the 30 men to get them, than that is not a good risk to take, not to be heartless or anything.
