Which lines in this excerpt from t. s. eliot's "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" contain a biblical allusion? i should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas. and the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! smoothed by long fingers, asleep … tired … or it malingers, stretched on the floor, here beside you and me. should i, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? but though i have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, a)[though i have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, i am no prophet]—and here’s no great matter; i have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and would it have been worth it, after all, after the cups, the marmalade, the tea, among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, would it have been worth while, b)[to have bitten off the matter with a smile, to have squeezed the universe into a ball] to roll it toward some overwhelming question, c)[to say: “i am lazarus, come from the dead], come back to tell you all, i shall tell you all”— d)[if one, settling a pillow by her head, should say: “that is not what i meant at all; that is not it, at all.”]

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification