GCELiterature in EnglishUnseen Passages2019

Read the following passage and answer the question. 'Brother Boniface preached fire and brimstone on Sundays, yet on Mondays his hands were deep in the church treasury. He thundered against corruption from the pulpit with the same mouth he used to negotiate bribes in the vestry. The congregation, blinded by his eloquence, saw only the shepherd and never the wolf.' The expression 'saw only the shepherd and never the wolf' is a reference to the literary device known as

Aallegory
Ballusion
CsymbolismCORRECT
Deuphemism
AI
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Why the answer is C, and why the others tempt you.
The 'shepherd' and 'wolf' function as symbols: the shepherd symbolises a caring, trustworthy leader while the wolf symbolises a predatory deceiver. The congregation saw only the symbolic facade (shepherd) and not the true nature (wolf) of Brother Boniface. While there is an implicit allusion to biblical imagery, the primary device operating in this specific expression is symbolism. Allegory would require the entire narrative to be a sustained symbolic story.
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