Part A
How does Black Hawk use rhetoric in this excerpt to advance his purpose?

The sun rose dim on us in the morning, and at night it sunk in a dark cloud, and looked like a ball of fire. That was the last sun that shone on Black Hawk.

A) He uses an extended metaphor to convey the magnitude of his sorrow about having to surrender.
B) He overstates the importance of his surrender to emphasize that there is a time for concession.
C) He uses figurative language and simile to give the audience a sense of what actually happened.
D) He repeats a word or expression to emphasize the importance of his personal feelings at a specific moment.

Part B
How does the phrase "the last sun that shone" affect the tone of Black Hawk’s statement in Part A?

A) It creates sentimentality as an era passes.
B) It establishes urgency as time is running out.
C) It conveys finality and hopelessness about the future.
D) It creates fear based on the physical chill implied.

1. I would say the correct answer is A) He uses an extended metaphor to convey the magnitude of his sorrow about having to surrender. Sun is the extended metaphor here; it depicts their faltering hope and future that doesn't exist. True, there is a simile in the passage, but it doesn't mark the passage semantically and stylistically as this metaphor does.

2. In my opinion, the correct answer is C) It conveys finality and hopelessness about the future. As I said, the sun here is a metaphor for their happiness and prosperity. That was the last time Black Hawk was able to actually see the sun, and he will never be able to do it again, as his people are definitely defeated and cast off their lands.