<span>Read this sentence from the story:
She silenced him with an imperious gesture as he strove to speak.
Which of the following offers a paraphrase of this sentence?</span>
<span> He started to talk, but she cut him off with a commanding wave of her hand.</span><span> He stopped talking when she started waving her arms all around.</span><span> She started yelling and waving her arms at him, but he kept on talking.</span><span> She was talking, but then he gestured commandingly to her, and she stopped.</span>
Answer: the answer is B
Explanation:
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
In "The Slump," John Updike uses the national pastime, baseball, as the setting to explore one individual's frustration with the world. The story is told by a professional ballplayer who finds himself, for no identifiable reason, unable to hit as well as he once did. He thinks about why this might be, but not very deeply; for the most part, he accepts this slump as his fate and considers what it says about life in general. The story depicts the superstitious nature of athletes in the way that its narrator hopes for better days without having any hope that anything he can do would make his luck return.
The place where the audience can find an allusion to<em> Ovid's Metamorphoses </em>is:
- Elizabeth I's absence of a successor.
<h3>What is an Allusion?</h3>
This refers to the a literary element where something that is unrelated to the context is mentioned either overtly or covertly to show a direct connection and is usually done to make a reference to popular people.
With this in mind, we can see that allusion was used in the given text when there is the mention of Elizabeth I's absence of a successor which shows that the characters are in a similar situation.
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