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Allusion is an economical device, a figure of speech that uses a relatively short space to draw upon the ready stock of ideas, cultural memes or emotion already associated with a topic. Thus, an allusion is understandable only to those with prior knowledge of the covert reference in question, a mark of their cultural literacy. [8]
Usage (how/why allusion is used by writers, poets, or in everyday speech) Etymology Historical usage (early usage of the word) Modern usage (how it has changed in meaning, if at all) Common categorizations of allusion (end each section with a brief and diverse list of examples) Literary/Poetic (e.g. Allusions to/by Shakespeare)
Etymology. Ostracion means "little box" and is an allusion to the shape of the body of its type species, O. cubicum. [4] Species Ostracion ...
The American frontiersman Daniel Boone, who often used terms from Gulliver's Travels, claimed that he killed a hairy giant that he called a Yahoo. [4]The fictitious country of Yahoo was the setting for Bertolt Brecht's 1936 play Round Heads and Pointed Heads.
Atractoscion is a combination of atracto, which means "spindle", an allusion Gill did not explain, but it mau have referred to the more cylindrical body shape of this genus in comparison to the typical members of the Sciaenidae, with scion, the modern Greek name of Umbrina cirrosa, Gill preferring this over “sciaena” because he considered that it sounded better.
Its meaning comes from allusion to the crossing of the river Rubicon from the north by Julius Caesar in early January 49 BC. The exact date is unknown. [2] Scholars usually place it on the night of 10 and 11 January because of the speeds at which messengers could travel at that time. [3]
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The albatross visits the Mariner and his crew in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, illustrated in 1876 by Gustave Doré.. The word albatross is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden (most often associated with guilt or shame) that feels like a curse.