Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number I.

"Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it."

In this excerpt, Paine uses hyperbole to

In this excerpt, Paine uses hyperbole to " inspire his readers to persevere".

Hyperbole is the utilization of of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or different method of expression. In talk, it is likewise at times known as auxesis. In verse and speech, it stresses, inspires solid emotions, and makes solid impressions. As a different method of expression, it is typically not intended to be taken literally.