Paragraph # 5: The quote is an example of a simile. Explain why.
"Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, with its boundary forever fluctuating, so that even a German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment..."
This is an example of a simile because it uses the word "like" to compare two different things. In this case, the writer is comparing someone's life to the German Confederacy.
