"Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light"
What is this? Is it a simile, metaphor, personification, etc?

What is tomas paine's central claim in this excerpt

What is the metaphor used for captain beatty? what is he being compared to?

Unit testactivelike sparkling stars strewn across the night sky. their brilliance catching the corner of my eye, making me slow down, just to look at them a little longer. in my awe of the sheer beauty of merely broken glass, i couldn't but thinkhow someone else's tragedycould be so beautiful to me. source: t., jennifer. "irony." teen ink. teen ink, n. d. web. cjuly 2011.the poem is an example ofexternal conflictinternal conflictdramatic ironysituational ironymark this and returnsave and exitsubmit