Answer:
The excerpt that best reveals the allegorical nature is: Option D: With a shuddering impulse, that showed her a woman still, the widow clasped her skinny hands before her face, and wished that the coffin-lid were over it, since it could be no longer beautiful.
Explanation:
We say that allegory is used in a story when the author uses the characters and settings as symbols which have a deeper meaning and not the obvious meaning of the story. It is used to explain the moral principles in one's life. and the universal truths.
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story that uses allegory beautifully.
Option D shows allegory as it explains that the body is no longer youthful and an old body cannot return to a youthful one. Time passes by and the youthfulness which the four people gained was momentarily.
In 1930, somebody built this house.
in cyprus, siemens employ 3000 people a day.
all over the world, people play football.
television sets are made by japanese firms.
every month our company sells more than a thousand cars.
in 1928, alexander fleming discovered penicillin.
the london underground system is used by two million people every day.
our school doesn’t teach chinese.
drinks aren’t offered to us.
the lights were turned off by someone.
(some might be wrong, check with yourself)
An encyclopaedia would be found in the d. reference section of a library.
