All 12 Uses of
allude
in
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- If the story is good and the characters work but you don't catch allusions and references and parallels, then you've done nothing worse than read a good story with memorable characters.
Chpt 5allusions = indirect references
- You can allude to Fulke Greville, but you'd have to provide your own footnotes.
Chpt 6allude = indirectly reference
- Many modern and postmodern texts are essentially ironic, in which the allusions to biblical sources are used not to heighten continuities between the religious tradition and the contemporary moment but to illustrate a disparity or disruption.
Chpt 7 *allusions = indirect references
- But even I can sometimes recognize a biblical allusion.
Chpt 7allusion = indirect reference
- If I hear something going on in a text that seems to be beyond the scope of the story's or poem's immediate dimensions, if it resonates outside itself, I start looking for allusions to older and bigger texts.
Chpt 7allusions = indirect references
- The meaning doesn't move in the opposite direction or shift radically; if it did, that would be self-defeating, since so many readers would not get the allusion.
Chpt 7allusion = indirect reference
- After all, he's been the gold standard for allusion for four hundred years and still is.
Chpt 8
- Now if you're a modernist poet and therefore given to irony (notice that I've not yet alluded to modernism without having recourse to irony?)
Chpt 10alluded = referenced
- ALONG ABOUT NOW you should be asking a question, something like this: you keep saying that the writer is alluding to this obscure work and using that symbol or following some pattern or other that I never heard of, but does he really intend to do that?
Chpt 10balluding = indirectly referring
- I sometimes teach a creative writing course, and my aspiring fiction writers frequently bring in biblical parallels, classical or Shakespearean allusions, bits of REM songs, fairy tale fragments, anything you can think of.
Chpt 10ballusions = indirect references
- Often those values will not be religious in nature but may show themselves in connection with the individual's role within society, or humankind's relation to nature, or the involvement of women in public life, although, as we have seen, just as often religion shows up in the form of allusions and analogues.
Chpt 14
- From there, if you consider the pattern of images and allusions, you'll begin to see more going on.
Chpt 27
Definition:
to make an indirect reference
The expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.