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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.
A. Let's go out on Friday; it's my birthday!
Personification<span> is a form of </span>metaphor<span>, a comparison that does not claim an object or action is "like" another object or action, but that is literally the same object or action, but with the added caveat that the object being described is not human, but being described as human.</span>
The word swims, if you read it upside down and backwards