Read this excerpt from Journey to the Center of the Earth: - I was, therefore, in constant communication with, at all events the letter of, Sir Humphry Davy, Captain Franklin and other great men.

We are assumed to be familiar with the people mentioned. What literary technique is being used?

a. allusion
b. symbolism
c. irony
d. characterization

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Which passage is the best example of deductive reasoning? a. aaron wants to try something new for lunch. he asks his coworkers what they like and then decides where to eat b. everyone in mr. kim’s class got an a on the test. casey is in mr. kim’s class, so he must have received an a on the test. c. petra sees that all the kids at her school walk home. tomorrow she will tell her mother she doesn’t need a ride home. d. saul is buying a present for his sister. he asks his mother for suggestions and then goes to the mall to find something.

Which best identifies the figurative language used in this passage? cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley’d and thunder’d; storm’d at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred.