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An allusion is reference within a literary work to a famous, historical, or biblical person or event that is outside of that literary work.
The reference can often be indirect and is usually used to explain or clarify something in the text.
Some examples are "My next door neighbour has Scrooge Syndrome." (allusion to Ebeneezer Scrooge of the book "A Christmas Carol").
"He can make his own lunch. He's a grown man. Don't indulge his Peter Pan complex." (allusion to Peter Pan).
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 15y agoThe word allusion mean when you reference something to a book, art work, people, etc. So you can refer to a person, document, something historical. A religious allusion is when someone is referring to The Bible. For example, Abe Lincoln said in his Gettysburg Address speech "4 score and 7 years ago". That is a biblical (religious) allusion because in the bible they don't say blank years ago, they used the word score.
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You mean allusion? You can look up "Allude" or "Allude to" in a dictionary.
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Define the literary term allusion
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