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B. It helps readers understand the riots by calling to mind vivid, turbulent images of ships in a storm.
C. It evokes a feeling of sadness by suggesting that people would rather riot than appreciate fine art
The effect of the allusion to Turner’s ships is that it B: it helps readers understand the riots by calling to mind vivid, turbulent images of ships in a storm.
This refers to the figure of speech that calls an idea or something to mind without explicitly mentioning it.
Hence, we can see that from Walcott's poem, there is an allusion to the ships of Turner and the painting there which gives the readers extra information about the ship in a storm.
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Answer:
the answer is B: it helps readers understand the riots by calling to mind vivid, turbulent images of ships in a storm.
Explanation:
A IS NOT CORRECT
a: metaphor
b: rhetorical question
c: tone
d: simile