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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...
- 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...
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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...
-
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...
- deal of
background information about these kings,
which is
shown in the
allusiveness of the references.
According to
sources such as
Ynglingatal and Íslendingabók...
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Shiva the destroyer. The Om
symbol of
Hinduism is
considered to have an
allusion to Trimurti,
where the A, U, and M
phonemes of the word are considered...
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approved of
other writers building on his work,
believing such
common allusions built up "a
background of evil verisimilitude". Many
readers have believed...
- name
given to the
people of the
village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, in
allusion to an
incident where they
supposedly feigned idiocy to
avoid a
Royal visit...
