The bonfire was by this time beginning to sink low, for the fuel had not been of that substantial sort which can support a blaze long. Most of the other fires within the wide horizon were also dwindling. Attentive observation of their brightness, color, and duration would have revealed the quality of the material burnt, and of this latter, to some extent the natural produce of the district in which each bonfire was situated. The clear kingly effulgence that had characterized the majority expressed a heath and furze country like their own, which in one direction extended an unlimited number of miles: The rapid flares and extinctions at other points of the compass showed the lightest of fuels—straw, beanstalks, and the usual waste from arable land. From Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.

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Select the correct answer.
What is the allusion in this passage?

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A.
No allusion in passage
B.
Arable land
C.
Rapid flares
D.
Kingly effulgence

Read the excerpt from the odyssey then his chores being all dispatched she caught another brace of man to make his breakfast and whisk away his great door slab to let his sheep go through but he behind reset the stones as one would cap a quiver what two things are being compared in this epic simile

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