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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Intertextuality (section Allusion)
either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, or by interconnections...
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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)...
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Gulliver's Travels (redirect from Political allusions in Gulliver's Travels)
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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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Strong Winds series (section Allusion)
the original trilogy, to make it a 'series'. The books contain frequent allusion to Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series as well as other works...
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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...
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of Berechiah". The Methodist theologian Adam Clarke suggests that this allusion by Jesus was actually a prophetic reference to Zacharias Baruch, who was...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Veni, vidi, vici (section Allusions and references)
after the death of his daughter Leopoldine at age 19 in 1843, uses the allusion with its first verse: J'ai bien assez vécu...("I have lived quite long...
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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...
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Herman Melville (section Style and literary allusion)
categories. In the first, allusion is more within the narrative rather than formal quotation. Several preferred Biblical allusions appear repeatedly throughout...
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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...
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idiom that means "passing a point of no return". Its meaning comes from allusion to the crossing of the river Rubicon by Julius Caesar in early January...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events (section Allusions)
and anachronistic elements, as well as frequent cultural and literary allusions. They have been classified as postmodern and metafictional writing, with...
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stylized 10 Chilean pesos coin produced from 1973 to 1990. The coin is an allusion to the coup d'état in Chile in 1973 against the socialist president Salvador...
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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...
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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...
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long). In Japanese this natural-fibre rope is known as asanawa (麻縄). The allusion is to the use of hemp rope for restraining prisoners, as a symbol of power...
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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...
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meaning. Remez (רֶמֶז lit. 'hint[s]'): the allegoric meanings (through allusion). Derash (דְרָשׁ from the Hebrew darash: 'inquire' or 'seek'): midrashic...
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than being fully allegorical, however, a poem may contain symbols or allusions that deepen the meaning or effect of its words without constructing a...
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