Question

What figure of speech is used in the following line of poetry from Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts”? In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away…   A. allegory B. allusion C. personification D. metaphor

Answer 1

B- an allusion, as it mentions Brueghel's Icarus.

Answer 2

Answer: B. allusion

An allusion is a figure of speech in which another object or circumstance is referenced, directly or indirectly. In this passage, the statement "Brueghel's Icarus" refers to a painting by the Dutch painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, titled "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus." Pieter Bruegel the Elder was the most important painter of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance.