Question

Read this excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave .

My Dear Friend:

You remember the old fable of "The Man and the Lion," where the lion complained that he should not be so misrepresented "when the lions wrote history."

I am glad the time has come when the "lions write history.”

In this excerpt, the writer refers to a fable. When a writer refers to another piece of literature like this, it is called an _____.

1.allusion
2.allegory
3.alliteration
4.onomatopoeia

Answer 1

1.allusion

reference to a person, place, event, or work of literature, which is not described directly but rather indirectly through other means