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Allusion

Allusion, or alluding, is a figure of speech that makes a reference to someone or something (a person, object, location, etc.) without mentioning it by name or without explaining how it relates to the given context, so that the audience must realize the connection in their own minds. When a connection is directly and explicitly explained (as opposed to…

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Academic analysis of the concept of allusions

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Academic analysis of the concept of allusions

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Allusion

Nodes39
Edges38
Triples57
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.051282
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related to Bibliography · 19
Allusion → Aesthetics, Allan, Art Criticism, Ben-Porot, Charlottesville, Irwin, Journal, Literary Allusion, Literary Graft, Pasco, PTL, Rookwood Press, The Aesthetics, The Journal, The Poetics, Value Inquiry, What Is, William, Ziva
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Allusion → Abraham Lincoln's, Callimachus, Calydonian, Dream, Five, Four, Gettysburg Address, Have, In Hellenistic Alexandria, In Homer, King's, Martin Luther King Jr
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Allusion → Apparent, Casual, Corrective, In, Multiple, Self-reference, Single, These, Thomas, Virgil, Virgil's Georgics
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Allusion → Addressing, Latin, Recognizing, Some, Ted Cohen, The
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Allusion → In, It, Thus, What, William Irwin, Without
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Allusion → economical device, literary term, passing or casual short statement indicating broader meaning

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Allusionis apassing or casual short statement indicating broader meaning0.90text
Allusionis aliterary term0.90text
Allusionis aeconomical device0.90text
Allusionrelated to Academic analysis of the concept of allusionsIn0.60section
Allusionrelated to Academic analysis of the concept of allusionsVirgil's Georgics0.60section
Allusionrelated to Academic analysis of the concept of allusionsThomas0.60section
Allusionrelated to Academic analysis of the concept of allusionsThese0.60section
Allusionrelated to Academic analysis of the concept of allusionsCasual0.60section
Allusionrelated to Academic analysis of the concept of allusionsSingle0.60section
Allusionrelated to Academic analysis of the concept of allusionsVirgil0.60section
Allusionrelated to Academic analysis of the concept of allusionsSelf-reference0.60section
Allusionrelated to Academic analysis of the concept of allusionsCorrective0.60section

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