________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

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"Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.
And you think:
"The swallows are flying so late!"
Swallows?"

The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___

When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes

A story with elements that have both literal and figurative meanings is