What rhetorical device is evident in the following
passage from Thomas Paine's
"The Crisis, No.1"?
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.
A. allusion
B. common ground
C. logical appeal
D. emotional appeal