Which excerpt is an example of metonymy? a. “since number five is out of the bathroom now,” b. “we think of lukewarm water and hope to get in it.” c. “i shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence” d. “i watch you wrapped up like garbage”

option 2

explanation:

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.

the answer is d

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