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allusions
noun
(al-lu-sion)
passing reference or indirect mention
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allusions
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references
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overtones
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hints
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insinuations
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remarks
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suggestions
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facts
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indications
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claims
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matters
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allegories
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subtext
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metaphors
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intimations
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undertones
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digressions
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analogies
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iconography
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epigrams
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crudities
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connotations
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koans
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apercus
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tropes
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grandiloquence
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referents
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exegeses
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affectations
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moralizing
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puns
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etymologies
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narratives
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undercurrents
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interludes
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circumlocutions
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absurdism
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profundity
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motifs
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archaisms
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phantasms
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odes
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poesy
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felicities
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fantasias
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symbolism
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conceits
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cliches
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depictions
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didacticism
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isms
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soliloquies
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metafiction
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revisionism
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mythology
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insubstantiality
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strangeness
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commonplaces
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surrealism
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passages
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homoeroticism
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wordplay
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melodramatics
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themes
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supernaturalism
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evocation
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similes
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fictionalisation
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pompousness
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attitudinizing
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pathos
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hagiographies
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intertextuality
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winkingly
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inexactitude
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grand guignol
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inelegance
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carnality
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elision
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rawly
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riffs
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mysticism
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seductions
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lyrics
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wryness
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insanities
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musings
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mesmerism
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scatology
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explications
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suggestiveness
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historicism
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allusions
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