https://padlet.com/jonah_286/ualhlmy4lhry by: Jonah Benigno and Jordan Read en-us 2017-10-30 16:42:41 UTC 2024-06-17 10:00:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png jonah_286 https://padlet.com/jonah_286/ualhlmy4lhry/wish/201819424 Allusion- a figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds.

The importance of allusions- Allusion means 'reference'. It relies on the reader being able to understand the allusion and being familiar with all of the meaning hidden behind the words. ]]> 2017-10-30 16:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jonah_286/ualhlmy4lhry/wish/201819424 jordan_732047 https://padlet.com/jonah_286/ualhlmy4lhry/wish/201823330 http://study.com/academy/lesson/allusion-in-literature-definition-examples.html

https://www2.powayusd.com/teachers/bsantibanez/Allusion.htm

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https://writingexplained.org/grammar-dictionary/allusion]]> 2017-10-30 16:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jonah_286/ualhlmy4lhry/wish/201823330 jordan_732047 https://padlet.com/jonah_286/ualhlmy4lhry/wish/201827600 In Taylor Swift's "Love Story" she sings "Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter. And my daddy said, 'Stay away from Juliet'." This refers to all of Swift's past relationships and helps the listener realize that her dad doesn't enjoy her taste in men. 











In Disney's Phineas and Ferb when they sing about their mummy it alludes to the Lion King when they all walk across the log. This refers to Disney movies and how they like to refer their old movies and shows in new movies and shows.

]]> 2017-10-30 17:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jonah_286/ualhlmy4lhry/wish/201827600 jonah_286 https://padlet.com/jonah_286/ualhlmy4lhry/wish/201829103 "Would have mourn'd longer-- married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules." (Play: Hamlet, Speaker: Hamlet, act 1 scene 2, line 23)
type of allusion: Ruler
Hamlet is alluding that his father's brother will be his new father,but he chooses to not accept it because he believes he is nothing like his father.









"Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans mark him and write his speeches in their books."(Play: Julius Caesar, Speaker: Cassius, act 1 scene 2, line 36)
type of allusion: History
This is an allusion of actual Roman history. This is important because Cassius uses it to describe Julius Caesar. 

"Ay! Thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat on this distracted globe. Remember thee!"(Play: Hamlet, Speaker: Hamlet, act 1 scene 5, line 5)
type of allusion: Mythology
Allusion of Hamlet seeing his dead father as a ghost. This is important because the ghost requests Hamlet to take revenge against his uncle for killing his father. 

"He will be crowned, how that might change his nature, there's the question."( Play: Julius Caesar, Speaker: Julius Caesar, act 2 scene 1, line 3)
This is an allusion of a ruler or political leader being given a huge stature or reputation. This is important because it explains how a person is being crowned and what Julius Caesar thinks about it.

"So Caesar may. Then, lest he may, prevent. And since the quarrel will bear no color for the thing he is, fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented would run to these and these extremities. And therefore think him as a serpent's egg- which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous- and kill him in the shell."(Play: Julius Caesar, Speaker: Julius Caesar, act 2 scene 1, line 18)









This is an allusion of comparing someone to a snake. This is important because the animal being referenced in the story is a serpent.]]> 2017-10-30 17:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jonah_286/ualhlmy4lhry/wish/201829103 jordan_732047 https://padlet.com/jonah_286/ualhlmy4lhry/wish/201834441 In Disney's Oliver and Company the dogs allude to Shakespeare's Macbeth where Francis, the snobby bulldog that loves art is seen watching and mouths the words of Macbeth's monologue in Act V Scene V "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow." Like Macbeth they feel hopeless knowing that Sykes is coming any moment to collect his money.
 










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