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  2. Allusion - Wikipedia

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    Allusion. Allusion is a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from an unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly. [1][2] It is left to the audience to make a direct connection. [3] Where the connection is directly and explicitly stated (as opposed to indirectly implied) by the author, it is instead usually termed a ...

  3. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - Wikipedia

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    Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, sometimes referred to simply as Brewer's, is a reference work containing definitions and explanations of many famous phrases, allusions, and figures, whether historical or mythical. The "New Edition revised, corrected, and enlarged" from 1895 is now in the public domain, and Web-based versions are ...

  4. Biblical allusions in Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Biblical allusions in Shakespeare. According to Dr. Naseeb Shaheen, Shakespeare, in writing his plays, "seldom borrows biblical references from his sources, even when those sources contain many references." [1] Roy Battenhouse notes that the Shakespearean tragedy "frequently echoes Bible language or paradigm, even when the play's setting is ...

  5. The Burglar's Christmas - Wikipedia

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    Plot summary. Out in Chicago on Christmas Eve, two shabby-looking men are considering getting food after they have not been eating for days. Crawford is too tired to walk however, so the other man goes off by himself. Crawford considers stealing the food as he cannot pay for it, but when a woman drops a parcel he gives it to her instead of ...

  6. Intertextuality - Wikipedia

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    Intertextuality. Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, [1][2][3][4][5] or by interconnections between similar or related works perceived by an audience or reader of the text. [6]

  7. 2 B R 0 2 B - Wikipedia

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    See media help. " 2 B R 0 2 B " is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction in January 1962, and later collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B" and references the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William ...

  8. To Helen - Wikipedia

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    To Helen. Illustration by Edmund Dulac, 1912. "To Helen" in the March 1836 Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2, Number 4, bound volume, page 238. " To Helen " is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. [1]

  9. Heroic couplet - Wikipedia

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    A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, [1] and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and ...

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