Allusion is a figure of speech that covertly or indirectly refers to anything (a person, object, circumstance, etc.) from an unrelated context. It is left...

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...

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

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

of Berechiah". The Methodist theologian Adam Clarke suggests that this allusion by Jesus was actually a prophetic reference to Zacharias Baruch, who was...

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...

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

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...

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...

Shakespeare wrote during the reign of King James I, contains the most allusions to James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. In the play, a brave...

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

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

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...

represented in four different ways - in words, in numerals, by symbols or by allusion. As in every language in Newari also we can represent numbers in words...

2000, had small runic letters that read "Herein lie the lost lands" as an allusion to the connection between the two worlds.[citation needed] Forgotten Realms...

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...

idiom that means "passing a point of no return". Its meaning comes from allusion to the crossing of the river Rubicon from the north by Julius Caesar in...

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...

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...

meaning. Remez (רֶמֶז‎ lit. 'hint[s]'): the allegoric meanings (through allusion). Derash (דְרָשׁ‎ from the Hebrew darash: 'inquire' or 'seek'): midrashic...

Charles Stross's novel Halting State is written in second person as an allusion to this style. In the third-person narrative mode, the narration refers...

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