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Dominik [7]
2 years ago
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Read this excerpt from Herman Melville's "The Lightning-Rod Man," which contains a mythological allusion.

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The statements that best conveys the meaning of the allusion is: By referring to the lighting-rod man as Mr. Jupiter Tonans, a pagan god, the narrator is calling the salesman a pagan as well." (Option D)

<h3>What is an Allusion?</h3>

When a writer refers to something indirectly or in a way that certainly calls up an image to mind without directly describing such thought or idea, it is called an Allusion.

Because Jupiter is known as the god of sky and thunder, it is correct to stat e that the statements that best conveys the meaning of the allusion is: By referring to the lighting-rod man as Mr. Jupiter Tonans, a pagan god, the narrator is calling the salesman a pagan as well."

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