What figurative language term is this passage an example of? “just as the prophets of the eighth century b. c. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the apostle paul left his village of tarsus and carried the gospel of jesus christ to the far corners of the greco roman world, so am i compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.”

The term figurative language in this passage is an example of Allusion.

Explanation:

Allusion is a concept of the family of the verb allude (to designate, to indicate or to refer to a person or thing). An allusion, therefore, is a reference to an object, a symbolic question or an individual. We can see that there is an allusion in the paragraph shown in the question above, because the narrator makes reference to the prophets of the eighth century B.C.

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answer: from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people

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