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• Carina Heger
• Jonathan Carpenter

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• Allusions are a reference to something external. (person, event, literary text)
• Writers use allusions to communicate a particular mood/emotion. They are placed strategically and intentionally to affect the overall meaning of their work. They are important because in writing they help the reader to visualize what's happening by evoking a mental picture.

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• Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
- In the song 'White Rabbit', the band, Jefferson Airplane, uses allusions to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) to relate their experiences with psychedelics. This is effective because it gives us a mental image of their drug trip by comparing the strange sights with that of Wonderland. Alice in Wonderful is very well-known and helps the reader relate to the song.

• Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
- Led Zeppelin in the song 'Ramble On' alludes to Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien) in the lyrics, "Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair, but Gollum and the evil one, crept up and slipped away with her." This paints a mental picture for the listener by relating a widely known story with the message he's trying to convey. He's relating the guy who stole his girl with the evil ones in Lord of the Rings.

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Shakespeare's Allusions in his Soliloquies 

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Shakespeare's Allusions in his Soliloquies 

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• Shakespeare's Hamlet
- "It is not nor it cannot come to good... So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to satyr." (I, ii, 12) alluding to the marriage of his mother to his uncle. This gives the audience a hint of foreshadowing cause it is the first time Hamlet mentions the future. He compares the love his last father had for his mother to Hyperion to Satyr; this reference is to the sun god and his affections.

- "Like Niobe, all tears:--why she even she--O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, would have mourn'd longer." (I, ii, 21) Hamlet compares his mother to Niobe, a figure in Greek mythology who was so grief stricken from the death of her children, she turned herself into stone. Hamlet says that his mother should have cried and mourned as long as Niobe.

- "My father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules." (I, ii,  25) Shakespeare alludes to Greek mythology when he says that Hamlet is no more like his uncle than he is to Hercules. This is important to understanding his frustration because it shows us how close he feels to his uncle (not very close).

- Shakespeare references the Bible when he talks about the garden of Adam and Eve. "Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden! (I, ii, 7) That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature." Hamlet is saying that humanity's garden is rotting and his mother's early affection to his uncle is lustful and sinful.

• Shakespeare's Macbeth
- "My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar." (I, iii, 10) Shakespeare alludes to Greek/Roman mythology was he references the friendship between Mark Antony and Julius Caesar to Macbeth and Banquo. This is powerful because Shakespeare is saying that Banquo could betray Macbeth like Mark Antony betrayed Julius Caesar and foreshadows the future.

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Allusions made to Shakespeare in Pop Culture 

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Allusions made to Shakespeare in Pop Culture 

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• Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do
- "Friends, Romans, countrymen..." Iron Maiden references Julius Caesar and the famous speech made by Mark Antony in Act 3, Scene 2. The song is about the evil doings of man, and references the death of Julius Caesar and how his friend betrayed him. They are saying that the death of Caesar is an example of the evil that men do and gives us a mental picture of what they are talking about in the song and backs up their point. They say that "the evil that men do lives on and on" like the everlasting effects of Caesar's death to Rome.

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• “Grammar, Style, and Usage.” Writing Explained, writingexplained.org/
• “News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, www.theguardian.com/us.