The sentence from Herman Melville's short story "The Lightning-Rod Man" that is an example of allusion is Who has empowered you, you Tetzel, to peddle round your indulgences from divine ordinations?
Explanation:
An allusion is a device that writer use to make reference to something without being this present in the scene, this normally gives extra context to help the understanding either of a situation or a character, here the sentence is making reference to reason behind what the reader can see now, it is calling for the background.
The sentence from Herman Melville's short story "The Lightning-Rod Man" is an example of allusion is <span>Who has empowered you, you Tetzel, to peddle round your indulgences from divine ordinations?</span>
I believe that Faustus originally asked Mephastophilis to bring him Helen of Troy because he lusted after Helen and wanted to possess her. Helen is the symbol of ultimate beauty, and his hedonistic side wanted to indulge his more primal needs.
