Question

How could you know that an author has used an allusion within a text?

1. The author engages the reader by using an event or place that is familiar.
2. The author engages a reader by using the repetition or initial consonant sounds in a sentence
3. The author engages the reader by describing something as though it were something else.
4. The author engages the reader by pointing out similar qualities between two unlike things.

Answer 1

it is actually 3 because

Step-by-step explanation:

An allusion can be used as a straightforward device to enhance a text by providing further meaning, but it can also be used in a more complex sense to make an ironic comment on one thing by comparing it to something that is dissimilar.

Answer 2

The correct answer is 1. The author engages the reader by using an event or place that is familiar.

Step-by-step explanation:

Allusion in literature is referring to something that is commonly known, but does not necessarily appear in that very text. For example, in Hamlet, Shakespeare is alluding to Greek gods Hyperion, Jove, and Mars (who do not appear in the play itself):

See what a grade was seated on this brow,

Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself,

An eye like Mars' to threaten and command…

2. is incorrect because that definition refers to alliteration, not allusion.

3. is incorrect because that definition refers to metaphor, not allusion.

4. is incorrect because that definition refers to simile, not allusion.