Read this excerpt from chapter 41 of using comprehension strategies. if such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost his strength, ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one reasonable object. what is the meaning of this excerpt? though ahab is physically weakened, his insanity has strengthened his will for revenge. ahab’s anger has increased his physical strength, and he expects to do battle. ahab has always been somewhat mad, but his insanity has recently flourished. though ahab has lost his ability to seek revenge, he still harbors anger and resentment.

Hello the answer is   Though Ahab is physically weakened, his insanity has strengthened his will for revenge

A) Though Ahab is physically weakened, his insanity has strengthened his will for revenge.

Explanation: In this excerpt from the famous Herman Melville's book, the author expresses how Ahab's anger ends up driving him completely insane and this insanity gives him more strength than ever (now possess a thousand fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one reasonable object), and now he wants revenge more than he has ever wanted it.

the rhetorical devices that he used in "common sense" are syntax for his sentence structure and pathos for his emotion against the british unfairly treating the "americans" and logos of what documents that what happened to the pilgrims when they had the mayflower compact and how that the british were wanting to have one religion but the compact said for any religion to be accepted.