An author will sometimes use figurative language to develop a reader’s understanding of a character and the setting. When Lizabeth begins to describe Miss Lottie’s house in paragraph 17, she uses a simile, saying it is “Like a house a child might have constructed from cards.” How do images like this help the reader understand Miss Lottie’s situation?

right angles are formed by perpendicular lines. if the lines would extend, to make two intersecting lines, they would form four right angles.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."