In his revolutionary-era pamphlet common sense, thomas paine uses phrases "tis not the affair" and "tis not the concern" to illustrate the importance of separating from great britian. this is an example of which rhetorical technique?

Repetition

Explanation:

 These phrases used by Thomas Paine in his pamphlet Common Sense with the words "Tis not" in each of them show a example of a figure of speech called Repetition.  This is a literay or rethotical devise used by writers who want to put emphasis  of some words or phrases in the text, or to make an idea clearer by repeating them.

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,