Read the following excerpt from "Grass" by Carl Sandburg:

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Shovel them under and let me work -

I am the grass; I cover all.

Which sentence best analyzes the poet's use of allusion in this passage?

A. The speaker of the poem is the grass, which makes its actions seem like conscious decisions.

B. The speaker mentions Hastings to convey the idea that grass will eventually hide great atrocities.

C. The speaker refers to Waterloo to suggest that grass can hide even great battle losses.

D. The speaker refers to Austerlitz to imply that the grass cannot conceal all human activities.
The answer is C

C.

Explanation:

Allusion is a literary device that is used to give indirect and short credential to the things, places, person, idea, etc of past.

"Grass" is a poem penned by Carl Sandburg. The poem is written in the memory of those who lost their lives fighting for the nation. The poet urge the readers not to forget their sacrifices. The poem also talks about how nature works to cover or erase the wounds of the wars.

In the given passage, the poet has used allusion by referring to the war of Waterloo. The nature is playing an important role in the passage, by covering tthe great losses, even of the battles as Waterloo.

So, the correct answer is option C.

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!

absolutely it most certainly can.