In the room the women come and go talking of michelangelo. what literary device is most clearly used in this passage?

The correct answer is allusion.

Allusion means a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, political or literary significance. Allusion does not describe in detail the person or thing it refers to, the reference is general, like a passing comment.

The reader is expected to have enough knowledge to spot and understand the allusion.

In the above example, Michelangelo is used as an allusion, it is merely a reference to a famous person without any hidden meaning.

the answer should be the first one. "many people find his lyrics very moving."

it by far makes the most grammatical sense and is very objective, removing any first person from the original sentence and keeping with the sentence fluency.

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.