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- Dictionaryallusion/əˈl(j)uːʒn/
noun
- 1. an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference: "an allusion to Shakespeare"
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Allusion is a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from an unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly. It is left to the audience to make a direct connection. Where the connection is directly and explicitly stated (as opposed to indirectly implied) by the author, it is instead usually termed a reference. In the arts, a literary allusion puts the alluded text in a new c... Wikipedia