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Allusion: covert reference to another work of literature or art. Anacoenosis: posing a question to an audience, often with the implication that it shares a common interest with the speaker. Analogy: a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. Anapodoton: leaving a common known saying unfinished.
A plate from the 1742 deluxe edition of Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded showing Mr. B intercepting Pamela's first letter home to her mother. Pamela Andrews is a pious, virtuous fifteen-year-old, the daughter of impoverished labourers, who works for Lady B as a maid in her Bedfordshire estate.
The words "wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces" are an allusion to the Fall of Man in the Book of Genesis. As a result of Adam's sin, God tells Adam that henceforth "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou ...
In the novel The Tenth Circle (2006) by Jodi Picoult, the main character's comic strip, The Tenth Circle, is based on the Inferno. [37] Dante himself is a character in The Master of Verona (2007), a novel by David Blixt that combines the people of Dante's time with the characters of Shakespeare's Italian plays. [38]
The last story in the volume was the two-part "Big Two-Hearted River". [15] The piece was later included in Hemingway's collection The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories published in October 1938, and in two collections of short stories published after his death, The Nick Adams Stories (1972) and The Complete Short Stories of Ernest ...
This calls into question the extent to which the characters' actions influence the resulting consequences, and whether the characters are subject to the preferences of Fortune or Chance. Antony eventually realises that he, like other characters, is merely "Fortune's knave", a mere card in the game of Chance rather than a player. [ 88 ]
Examples of this may be found in the words of Walt Whitman ("Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun"), John F. Kennedy ("same high standards of strength and sacrifice"), and Barack Obama ("Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall") cited below in this article.
Allusion differs from the similar term intertextuality in that it is an intentional effort on the author's part. [8] The success of an allusion depends in part on at least some of its audience "getting" it. Allusions may be made increasingly obscure, until at last they are understood by the author alone, who thereby retreats into a private ...