The allusion is in the sentence "...by taking a Jeffersonian approach to spending."
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Often at the end of a hot,humid day appears the thunderclouds. <span />
The correct answer is:
This is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.
Sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,
