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Allusion, or alluding, is a
figure of
speech that
makes a
reference to
someone or
something by name (a person, object, location, etc.)
without explaining...
- the
character of
Clarissa Harlowe.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton used the name
allusively in his 1849
novel The
Caxtons ("And no
woman could have been more flattered...
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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...
- of
Western Christianity since at
least 1780. The
phrase is also used
allusively in
literary contexts to
depict rejection of
possibly tempting, but undesirable...
- 53–64. ISSN 0146-9339. JSTOR 26814627. Groves,
Beatrice (2017).
Literary Allusion in
Harry Potter. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315269337. ISBN 978-1-315-26933-7...
- Tories, and the
character referred to as
Flimnap is
often interpreted as an
allusion to Sir
Robert Walpole, a
British statesman and Whig
politician who Swift...
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pianists Geoffrey Madge and
Stanley Hoogland. He
works in a non-tonal (or
allusively-tonal) idiom.
Pedrillo Botón, a
chamber opera for an
audience of children...
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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)...
