Question

Common Sense
by Thomas Paine

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.



"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine

Use the passage to answer the question.

How does this passage use an analogy?

(1 point)

by using emotional imagery to describe a government’s ruin

by repeating the term “government” throughout the passage

by using commas to emphasize clauses within the sentence

by comparing a government to clothing

Answer 1

by comparing a government to clothing