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a figure of speech that makes a reference or representation of or to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art.
"a brief reference, explicit or indirect, to a person, place or event, or to another literary work or passage".[1] It is left to the reader or hearer to make the connection (Fowler); an overt allusion is a misnomer for what is simply a reference. An Allusion is an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication.
In a freer informal definition allusion is a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication. |
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| where a word, term, notation, sign, symbol, phrase, sentence, or any other form used for communication, is called ambiguous if it can be interpreted in more than one way. |
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| a reciprocal conversation between two or more entities |
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| refers to the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression |
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words in figurative expressions connote additional layers of meaning
Figurative language or speech contains images |
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| descriptive language that evokes sensory experience |
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| seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions |
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| a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, by means of humorous or satiric imitation |
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| words in literal expressions denote what they mean according to common or dictionary usage |
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| when the author places two themes, characters, phrases, words, or situations together for the purpose of comparison, contrast, or rhetoric. |
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a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal
Aesop - fables
E.A. Poe - Masque of Red Death
C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia |
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