Read these excerpts from "The Lottery" and answer the question. From paragraph 1:

. . . the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o’clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow villagers to get home for noon dinner.

From paragraph 10:

"Well, now." Mr. Summers said soberly, "guess we better get started, get this over with, so we can go back to work."

The underlined phrases set an ironic tone since they imply that .

8. "caged bird" right now, i feel like a bird caged without a key everyone comes to stare at me with so much joy and reverie they don't know how i feel inside through my smile, i cry they don't know what they're doing to me keeping me from flying that's why i say i know why the caged bird sings only joy comes from song she's so rare and beautiful to others why not just set her free? so she can fly, fly, fly spreading her wings and her song let her fly, fly fly for the whole world to see she's like caged bird fly, fly ooh just let her fly just let her fly just let her fly spread the wings spread the beauty what is the allusion found in the poem? question 8 options: a) alicia keys b) i know why the caged bird sings c) spreading her wings and her song d) fly, fly, fly