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Allusion is a
figure of speech, in
which an
object or cir****stance 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...
- 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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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 (****ed Up
Beyond All Recognition)...
- "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...
- 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...
- 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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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...
