My cousins and I went fishing last weekend. We were catching a boatload of fish, but then a problem sprang up. The boat started
taking on water, quickly! We had to jump out and swim to shore. We were dead tired after that. The boat sank quicker than the Titanic. Luckily, we weren’t too far from shore. What allusion does this passage include?
The allusion described in this passage is about the Titanic. "The boat sank quicker than the Titanic." This sentence is referencing an historical even that actually happened back in 1912 while using this as a comparison to the boat and how it sank. Hence, this type of allusion is an historical allusion (referring to an event in history).
