Allusion is a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from an unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly. It is left to the audience...

Edgar Allan Poe. Blues Traveler's 1995 hit "Run-Around" opens with an allusion to the opening line of "The Raven": "Once upon a midnight dreary". Lou...

than on her feet / Died every day she lived.” The last part is a direct allusion to 1 Corinthians 15, verse 31: "I affirm, by the boasting in you which...

eclecticism in art. Allusion is not pastiche. A literary allusion may refer to another work, but it does not reiterate it. Allusion requires the audience...

either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, or by interconnections...

unclear and can cause confusion. It is possible that foobar is a playful allusion to the World War II-era military slang FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition)...

Part I is probably responsible for the greatest number of political allusions. One of the most commonly noted parallels is that the wars between Lilliput...

apocryphal) anecdote commonly referred to as "the sword of Damocles", an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power...

"wearing the horns of a cuckold" or just "wearing the horns". This is an allusion to the mating habits of stags, who forfeit their mates when they are defeated...

have founded the first Algerian human rights organization. Its name is an allusion to the start of the Algerian War of Independence, in November 1954. In...

used in the arts, where one author or artist shows respect to another by allusion or imitation; this is often spelled like and pronounced similar to the...

The song's title is an allusion to an ad from Watchmen, reading "Oh, how the ghost of you clings". The ad itself was an allusion to the song, "These Foolish...

literature as the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable...

The following is a list of allusions in Marthandavarma, the 1891 historical novel by C. V. Raman Pillai. According to V. Nagam Aiya, during the reign...

to 1869, for a total of 483 performances. As a character and literary allusion, Humpty Dumpty has appeared or been referred to in many works of literature...

guide. The title of Yann Martel's 2010 novel Beatrice and Virgil is an allusion to two of the main characters in The Divine Comedy. Sylvain Reynards' 2011...

FISH after he broke FISH in 1994. Its name is supposed to be a humorous allusion to the pike fish. The cipher combines ideas from A5 with the lagged Fibonacci...

Shiva the destroyer. The Om symbol of Hinduism is considered to have an allusion to Trimurti, where the A, U, and M phonemes of the word are considered...

chasing a doe in the house as a child (571-74). This is a mock-heroic allusion to a scene from Homer's Odyssey. In Odyssey 19.428-54, the nurse Eurycleia...

categories. In the first, allusion is more within the narrative rather than formal quotation. Several preferred Biblical allusions appear repeatedly throughout...

refers to one previously told in the set. It is also known as an internal allusion, a literary device that helps give structure to the piece of writing. Callbacks...

self-quotations, and bizarre allusions; and repetitious and antiquated speech." Carlyle's writing is highly allusive. Ruth apRoberts writes that "Thomas...

The word aquiline comes from the Latin word aquilinus ("eagle-like"), an allusion to the curved beak of an eagle. While some have ascribed the aquiline nose...

2000, had small runic letters that read "Herein lie the lost lands" as an allusion to the connection between the two worlds. Forgotten Realms is one of the...

Episode 10. Holbert, C. (2002). "Stranded in the Wasteland: Literary Allusion in The Sharpest Sight". Studies in American Indian Literatures. 14 (1):...

citing possible internal allusions to the 1605 plot and its ensuing trials. In fact, there are a great number of allusions and possible pieces of evidence...

and DC Comics' Year of the Villain alongside Lex Luthor. His name is an allusion to the original Batman’s seriousness and to the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs...

Franconian parts of Bavaria, Leberkäsweckle, Leberkäsweggla or LKW in short, an allusion to the abbreviation for Lastkraftwagen, heavy goods vehicle), is a staple...

connection with Prometheus' own. Instead, Aeschylus includes this one oblique allusion to Pandora and her jar that contained Hope (252): "[Prometheus] caused...

and anachronistic elements, as well as frequent cultural and literary allusions. They have been classified as postmodern and metafictional writing, with...