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	Allusion in Prose and Poetry .......................
		An allusion is a literary device that stimulates ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader's mind with only a word or two.
		Allusions are commonly made to the Bible, nursery rhymes, myths, famous fictional or historical characters or events, and Shakespeare.
		In general, the use of allusions by an author shows an expectation that the reader is familiar with the references made, otherwise the effect is lost.
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		My friend Andrew and I did a bit of tinkering on the DC's "external" port tonight using a logic analyzer and an oscilloscope, and I decided to go ahead and formalize this (along with info collected elsewhere on the net) into a doc explaining how the thing works.
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	allusion - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		An allusion is never an outright or explicit mention of the person or thing the speaker seems to have in mind.
		Allusions usually come from a body of information that the author presumes the reader will know.
		For example, an author who writes, “She was another Helen,” is alluding to the proverbial beauty of Helen of Troy.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/allusion (223 words)

	ALLUSION - Encyclopedia.com
		Whereas quotations usually come with acknowledged sources, allusions are indirect, even cryptic, sometimes dropped in passing, with little thought, sometimes used with care, so that a speaker or writer can share an understanding with certain listeners or readers.
		Allusions often adapt their originals to new ends, the audience making or failing to make the connections, as when the US journalist William Safire cries out in his column: ‘Ah, Fowler!
		Literary Allusion and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O29-ALLUSION.html (646 words)

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		Allusion is a stylistic device or trope, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance that has occurred or existed in an external context.
		Allusion is an economical device, a figure of speech that draws upon the ready stock of ideas or emotion already associated with a topic in a relatively short space.
		Allusion differs from the similar term intertextuality in that it is an intentional effort.
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	Literary Allusion in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
		One common form of allusion among poets is the allusion to a well-known work by another poet.
		When a poet makes such an allusion, he pays homage to the original poet, and also subtly incorporates implications from that poet's work into his own.
		That allusion is embodied both in the poem's rhyme scheme and in its central image, as well as in the thematic implications of that image.
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	University Satellite Seminar Series \| Background Essay
		The motivation for the distinction between allusions and accidental associations is that it is at best inaccurate, and at worst unethical, to attribute an association a writer--even a cartoon writer--that he did not intend.
		Recognizing and understanding this allusion yields much more pleasure than would a straightforward explanation that Maggie has been placed in a daycare facility in which tots are trained to fend for themselves, not to depend on others, not even to depend on their pacifiers.
		The allusions in The Simpsons are very "American" in one rather unflattering way, pointing to America as a fast-food society in which the masses don't like to "think too much." In many, though certainly not all, cases the allusions are very plainly stated or shown to the viewier.
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