In "A Letter from Abigail Adams," how does Adams use rhetoric to express the concept of dread about the approaching war? Select all that apply. A)Adams uses metaphor to describe her anxiety when she says, "The rocks and quicksands appear upon every side."

B)Adams uses alliteration to describe the state of current affairs when she says, "What course you can or will take is all wrapped in the bosom of futurity."

C)Adams uses simile to describe her optimism when she says, "I find great pleasure and entertainment from it, and I have persuaded Johnny to read me a page or two every day, and hope he will, from his desire to oblige me, entertain a fondness for it."

D)Adams uses analogy to describe the magnitude of pending events when she says, "The first of September, or the month of September, perhaps, may be of as much importance to Great Britain as the Ides of March were to Caesar."

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt