Read the selection below from the poem "the king sends three cats to guinevere" by marjorie allen seiffert and answer the question that follows. i send you three grey cats with gifts— (for uniformity of metaphor, since bacchus, satan, and the hangman are not contemporaneous in my mythology) i send you three grey cats with gifts, queen guinevere, to warn you, sleekly, silently to pay the forfeit. source: seiffert, marjorie allen. "the king sends three cats to guinevere." . black cat poems, n.d. web. 7 july 2011. which poetic device does the speaker use in the line, "since bacchus, satan, and the hangman"?
a. allusion
b. hyperbole
c. simile
d. metonymy