It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. —Thomas Paine, “The Crisis,” No. 1

Which type of figurative language is used in the passage?

Which point does the author make through the use of hyperbole?

Why do writers include figurative language in nonfiction argumentative writing? Select the three best answers.
to add humor to lighten the tone
to create an image in the reader’s mind
to emphasize key points
to draw the reader’s emotion
to strengthen the reader’s vocabulary

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.