What does Thomas Paine say in response to the argument that the British
have protected the colonies?

A. That they had to because the colonies bullied neighboring
countries

B. That they care deeply for the colonies, but that the colonies don't
need their protection

C. That they did it because the colonies and Britain share a language

D. That they did not do it on the colonists' account, but on their own
account

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

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explanation:

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the correct answer is:   [d]:

              →       " fond of fighting " .

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