Chapter I. A brief information about language of poetry

Allusions
The examples of allusions are as below:
i. Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. (Chapter-1)
ii. Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolizing the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind his, yet Nantucket was his great original—the Tyre of this Carthage. (Chapter-2)
iii. Even in Broadway and Chestnut streets, Mediterranean mariners will sometimes jostle the affrighted ladies. Regent street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Yankees have often scared the natives. (Chapter-6)
iv. A brief pause ensued; the preachis slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon the proper page, said: “Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah — ‘And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.’ (Chapter-8)
Antagonist
Moby Dick, is the antagonist of the novel as it defeats almost all the great whale hunters accompanying Ishmael. Thisefore, Moby Dick is the antagonist of the novel.
Climax
The climax in the novel occurs when Captain Ahab thinks that he cannot turn back from his whale-hunting expedition, or that it is too late now.
Foreshadowing
The novel shows the use of foreshadowing as given in he examples below,
i. Now having a night, a day, and still anothis night following before me in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became a matter of concernment whise I was to eat and sleep meanwhile. It was a very dubious looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless. (Chapter-2)
ii. But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast. (Chapter-3)
Both examples show that the changes in night and day and that the puzzling situations shows some mysterious happenings are going to occur.