Which of the following excerpts contains an allusion? Select all that apply. EXCERPT 1
“But, masters, here’s money for you: and the general
so likes your music, that he desires you, for love’s
sake, to make no more noise with it.” Othello (3:1)
EXCERPT 2
“Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death,
And therefore have I little talk’d of love;
For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.” Romeo and Juliet (4:1)
EXCERPT 3
“The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
EXCERPT 4
“A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye.
In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.” Hamlet (1:1)
EXCERPT 5
“And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?” Hamlet (3:1)
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EXCERPT 2
EXCERPT 3
EXCERPT 4
EXCERPT 5