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allusion
noun
(al-lu-sion)
an implied or indirect reference especially in literature; also : the use of such references
allusion
noun
(al-lu-sion)
the act of making an indirect reference to something : the act of alluding to something
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reference
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implication
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mention
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hint
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footnote
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insinuation
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inference
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suggestion
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indication
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involuntary
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subtext
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allegory
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metaphor
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analogy
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paraphrase
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phrase
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irony
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ambiguity
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ode
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antecedent
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figure of speech
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agnomination
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elision
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conflation
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epigraph
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metonymy
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prefiguring
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archaism
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tralation
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rhetorical device
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hypallage
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evocation
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innuent
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apologia
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depiction
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leitmotif
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dead metaphor
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circumlocution
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objective correlative
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echo
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giraudoux
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punning
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hyperbaton
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winkingly
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connotations
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abstract noun
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juxtaposition
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tautologies
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allegorist
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embroilment
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eschewal
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anaphora
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intertextuality
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foreshadowing
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hieroglyph
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epithet
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fictionalisation
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innuendo
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overtones
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anachronism
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grandiloquence
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referents
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annomination
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expostulation
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motif
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remark
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semiotic
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irreconcilability
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paean
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participle
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demiurge
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hysteron proteron
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signifier
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schopenhauer
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antiphrasis
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resonance
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forbearer
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explications
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homiletic
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parallels
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sophoclean
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hexagram
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illustration
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existentialist
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disavowal
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