G. k. chesterton uses the story of king midas to strengthen his claims in the essay "the fallacy of success. " which rhetorical device is used in this excerpt from the essay?

unfortunately, however, midas could fail; he did. his path did not lead unerringly upward. he starved because whenever he touched a biscuit or a ham sandwich it turned to gold. that was the whole point of the story, though the writer has to suppress it delicately, writing so near to a portrait of lord rothschild. the old fables of mankind are, indeed, unfathomably wise; but we must not have them expurgated in the interests of mr. vanderbilt. we must not have king midas represented as an example of success; he was a failure of an unusually painful kind. aphorism

a.) anecdote
b.) allusion
c.) metaphor
d.) alliteration