Astory follows a sequence of events called a plot, which is organized into distinct phases. one phase is called the inciting incident. which describes the inciting incident?
a. introduction of the setting, characters, and situation.
b. establishment of the central conflict followed by the conflict increasing and a climax.
c. a resolution or an absence of resolution

the rhetorical devices that he used in "common sense" are syntax for his sentence structure and pathos for his emotion against the british unfairly treating the "americans" and logos of what documents that what happened to the pilgrims when they had the mayflower compact and how that the british were wanting to have one religion but the compact said for any religion to be accepted.

edmund spenser and john bunyan also influenced hawthorne. : )

i hope this you with your work : )