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What rhetorical device were the declaration's signers using when they said used strong, emotional words to describe the grievances against the king?

When first i engaged in this work, i resolved to leave neither words nor things unexamined, and myself with a prospect of the hours which i should revel away in feasts of literature . . –preface to a dictionary of the english language, samuel johnson what is the connotation of the word revel in this passage?

Why does koskoosh give up his fight with the wolves