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Allusions
Literary allusions are references to familiar characters, real people, events, or concepts used to make an idea more easily understood. Moreover, allusions serve as a sort of intellectual shorthand; by inserting an allusion in a story, the writer succinctly inserts an additional text, or history, or philosophical system into his or her story, in just a word or two. For example, Ellison’s opening passage from Thoreau’s ‘‘Civil Disobedience’’ not only provides the image of the hero into the story, it also embeds the whole notion of civil disobedience,...
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