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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 how it relates to the given context, [1] [2] so that the audience must realize the connection in their own minds. [3]
allude and elude; altar and alter; appose and oppose; arc and ark; are and our; ascent and assent; ate and eight; away and aweigh; aye, eye and I; bade and bayed; bail and bale; bait and bate; bald, balled and bawled; ball and bawl; band and banned; bard and barred; bare and bear; baron and barren; base and bass; based and baste; bazaar and ...
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Attempting to elude law enforcement should carry the weight of a felony." In July, a Decatur man fled from Morgan County deputies at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, according to a deputy ...
Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1851) Titania adoring Bottom.Oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1790. Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play.
James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses bears an intertextual relationship to Homer's Odyssey.. Julia Kristeva coined the term "intertextuality" (intertextualité) [13] in an attempt to synthesize Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics: his study of how signs derive their meaning from the structure of a text (Bakhtin's dialogism); his theory suggests a continual dialogue with other works of literature and ...
A Missouri woman who admitted to killing her husband because she couldn’t afford to divorce him has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. On Monday, Jan. 27, Melanie Biggins, 42, pleaded guilty ...