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In "The Waste Land," what literary technique does Eliot extensively use?

AAllusion

BAutobiography

CFree verse

DEpic narrative

Answer:

A. Allusion

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Allusion 

  • Eliot uses allusions to other authors to support his contrast of past and present. He also uses allusions to reconcile formal experiment with an awareness of literary tradition.


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