Why can't no one give me brainless?

Read the excerpt and answer the question. then i lost my head entirely, mad with the power of exciting such what type of figurative language is used in the excerpt? idiom hyperbole metaphor alliteration

Question 5 the poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “tho' the morning was cold, tom was happy and warm / so if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” this is an ironic expression of the narrator’s

Why are reading and writing necessary in today’s world?