Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2, of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and the information in the paragraph that follows. Excerpt: ANTONY: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones. So let it be with Caesar. Background information: "The Evil That Men Do” is the title of a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The lyrics of the chorus say that people’s evil deeds live on. Iron Maiden’s reference to the line from Shakespeare’s play is an example of
Iron Maiden’s song echoes a line spoken by Antony in Shakespeare’s play, “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.” A reference to a specific work of literature is a literary allusion, so “literary allusion” is the correct choice.
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