I'm not exactly too small-town either. I read the Broadway columns. You get to know what New York boy is that way about what Hollywood actress on the West Coast and what starlet is currently the prettiest and who eventually, will play Joan of Arc. It gives you that worldly feeling. From "Sixteen," by Maureen Daly

The passage above includes an example of which literary technique?

metaphor
connotation
allusion
allegory