Question

English question

Answer 1

Which of the following is an example of an allusion?

a. “Like Mem, a character in The Third Life of George Copeland, my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.”

b. “During the ‘working’ day, she labored beside – not behind – my father in the fields.”

c. “Marriage, if not running away, was expected of seventeen-year-old girls.”

d. “And perhaps in Africa over two hundred years ago, there was just such a mother

Answer 2

allusion - to indirectly hint at something