Question

Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number IV.

Shall a band of ten or twelve thousand robbers, who are this day fifteen hundred or two thousand men less in strength than they were yesterday, conquer America, or subdue even a single state? The thing cannot be, unless we sit down and suffer them to do it.

In this excerpt, Paine uses a rhetorical device to encourage readers to

Answer 1

In this excerpt, Paine uses a rhetorical device to encourage readers to feel anger and contempt for the British troops.

The American Crisis is a pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution. 

Answer 2

Answer : Raise their anger by making them feel about the current position and contempt for British troops.

Explanation : Paine tries to increase the rage amongst the American soldiers people by defining that they stronger than the Britisher troops as those troops are equal to robbers. He wants the American soldiers to fight back with more power along with the Britishers troop.