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An article discusses the first professional football player who was deaf. The author compares the player to Jackie Robinson, who was the first African American in Major League Baseball. What type of allusion does the author create?

Biblical
Historical
Literary
Mythological

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Answer:

Historical

Step-by-step explanation:

This would be something that happened in the past so this would be labeled as a historical allusion

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I'm pretty sure the author is alluding to historical

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