This statement is telling a fact, so it would be A, to inform.
I would say that the intended meaning of that hyperbole is that <span>the speaker thinks that the colonists are being unfairly treated by the British government</span>
The queen was trying to
<span>persuade the troops</span>
I believe the answer is a
The <span>sound device used in the following excerpt from "How the Animals Lost their Tails and Got Them Back Traveling from Philadelphia to Medicine Hat" by Carl Sandburg is <u>repetition.
</u>You can see that the fragment <em>which family was </em>is repeated a several times throughout the excerpt, which is why repetition is the correct answer.<u>
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