Question

As T.S. Eliot has said: “The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

This line from Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is an example of _____.

allegory
alliteration
allusion
apostrophe

Answer 1

Allusion.

alliteration is the repeatition of words

Answer 2

Answer: C) Allusion.

Explanation: an allusion is a literary device that consists in making a brief reference to a person, an event (historical, political, cultural, etc), or to a place. The given line from Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is an example of an allusion, in this case, King is alluding to something that T. S. Eliot had said. So the correct answer is the corresponding to option C: allusion.