Metaphors

Answer the following questions
Early in "The Crisis, No. 1," Thomas Paine writes "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country" (689). What do you think is the definition of a “summer soldier” and/or a “sunshine patriot”? What do you think Paine is saying by using these phrases?
Both England and the colonists call upon God to help them in their fight. What argument(s) does Paine use in "The Crisis" to suggest that God is really on the colonists’ side?
A "metaphor" is a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract. Thomas Paine uses metaphors within "The Crisis." List one and explain its meaning.
Choose one chapter from "The Age of Reason" by Thomas Paine and summarize the central argument of that chapter. What is Paine's opinion? Explain his reasoning.
How does Jefferson explain the reason for a formal declaration of independence? Why do you think it was necessary for Jefferson to state the “causes which impel them to the separation”?