Allusion

An Allusion is an implicit reference.

• Context:
  • It can be found in a Poem.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • The Passage “Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards” (from John Keats' poem "Ode to a Nightingale") contains an Allusion to Titian's "Bacchus and Ariadne" which was brought to England in 1806. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus_and_Ariadne
• See: Explicit Reference, Referring Expression, Descriptive Expression.

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References

• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allusion
  • An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication. M.H. Abrams defined allusion as "a brief reference, explicit or indirect, to a person, place or event, or to another literary work or passage". [1] It is left to the reader or hearer to make the connection (Fowler); an overt allusion is a misnomer for what is simply a reference.
  • In a freer informal definition allusion is a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication.
• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=allusion
  • S: (n) allusion (passing reference or indirect mention)

2008

• (Bach, 2008) ⇒ Kent Bach. (2008). “On Referring and Not Referring.” In: Reference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.” Jeanette K. Gundel and Nancy Hedberg, editors. Oxford University Press.
  • QUOTE: Referring is not as easy as is commonly supposed. Much of what speaker do that passes for referring really isn't but is merely alluding or describing.

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