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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...
- 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...
- deal of
background information about these kings,
which is
shown in the
allusiveness of the references.
According to
sources such as
Ynglingatal and Íslendingabók...
- Johanna" as one of Dylan's
highest achievements in writing,
praising the
allusiveness and
subtlety of the language.
Rolling Stone included "Visions of Johanna"...
-
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)...
-
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...
- 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...
- Press. p. 4. Jacoff, Rachel; Schnapp,
Jeffrey T. (1991). The
Poetry of
Allusion:
Virgil and Ovid in Dante's 'Commedia'.
Stanford University Press. pp. 1–3...
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Lolita contains a few
brief allusions in the text to the
Alice books,
though overall Nabokov avoided direct allusions to Carroll. In her book, Tramp:...
