Allusions are defined as
a. verses that are written without end rhymes and without any kind of strict meter.
b. references to things, places, people, and events outside of the reading selection.
c. types of figurative language that are used to state informative facts and ideas.
d. two concepts that have nothing in common being put together for description.

Read the excerpt from act ii, scene v of romeo and juliet. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: 15 therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. friar laurence is motivated to offer this warning because he knows that something bad will certainly happen to the lovers. feels that romeo is acting foolishly and should not get married. enjoys giving advice because he is wise and can others. wants to caution romeo about the consequences of his actions.