Which excerpt from Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" contains an illusion?

A. "She looked at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said"

B. "Could she even seek her dinner in a tavern or roam the streets at midnight?"

C. "Chasity had then, it has even now, a religious importance ... "

D. "Now and again an Emily Bronte or a Robert Burns blazes out ... "

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Leticia Roach

2 April, 09:05

Which excerpt from Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" contains an illusion?

A. "She looked at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said"

B. "Could she even seek her dinner in a tavern or roam the streets at midnight?"

C. "Chasity had then, it has even now, a religious importance ... "

D. "Now and again an Emily Bronte or a Robert Burns blazes out ... "

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Melvin Hull · Answer 1

Allusion is when you reference some other work that the reader should know about, which means the correct answer is D. "Now and again an Emily Bronte or a Robert Burns blazes out ... " because you need to know why she's calling out those two names.