-
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...
- 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...
- by
Giles Bowkett The
phrase English as she is
spoke is
nowadays used
allusively, in a form of
linguistic play, as a
stereotypical example of bad English...
- 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...
- 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...
