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Explanation:
The kind of figurative language that Thomas Paine used in the excerpt from Common Sense is simile.Simile is the comparison of one thing to another thing. And in the excerpt, the least fracture is being compared to the name engraved with the use of a point of a pin on young oak’s tender rind (outer layer), so that symbolizes a fragile state. people would rather usually carve their name onto a stable and big tree.