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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
Allusions were an
Australian rock group,
which formed in late 1965. They
released a self-titled
studio album in
January 1967 via EMI/Parlophone. Their...
- 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...
- of
Western Christianity since at
least 1780. The
phrase is also used
allusively in
literary contexts to
depict rejection of
possibly tempting, but undesirable...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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)...
- 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...
- 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...
