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Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott.

Praise had bled my lines white of any more anger,
and snow had inducted me into white fellowships,
while Calibans howled down the barred streets of an empire

This excerpt makes an allusion to the Shakespearean character Caliban, who was forced into servitude and suffered harsh treatment. What is the effect of alluding to this character?

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The answer is:

It draws a comparison between the rioters and the character.

In the excerpt from "Midsummer," by Derek Walcott, the speaker feels that the rioters are similar to Shakespearean character Caliban in "The Tempest." Half human and half beast, Caliban represents an exploited subject of colonialism, as he rebelled his master, Prosperous. As a consequence, Walcott considers the rioters are uprising similarly in search of equality.

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The effect of alluding to the character is that it helps to make comparisons between the people rioting and the speaker.

What is an allusion?

This has to do with making a reference or making a statement indirectly without stating it explicitly.

The speaker is trying to compare the people rioting to the Caliban. The Caliban was also a character that rioted.

Read more on allusion here: https://brainly.com/question/19953693

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