Which characteristic of transcendentalist author Ralph Waldo Emerson's style is evident in this excerpt from Nature?

I think, if we should be rapt away into all that we dream of heaven, and should converse with Gabriel and Uriel, the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture.

the use of metaphor

the use of allusion

the use of personification

the use of repetition

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Which characteristic of transcendentalist author Ralph Waldo Emerson's style is evident in this excerpt from Nature?

I think, if we should be rapt away into all that we dream of heaven, and should converse with Gabriel and Uriel, the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture.

the use of metaphor

the use of allusion

the use of personification

the use of repetition

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notice how he makes a biblical/religious reference to the angels Gabriel & Uriel - what is the literary term we give to references like this?