A reference within a work to something famous
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A reference within a work to something famous outside it, such as a well-known person, place, event, story, or work of art, literature, music, pop culture.
KARATE KID DISNEY’S HERCULES
Lets reader/viewer understand new information, characters, plot, setting, etc. by connecting it to something already known. Allows one to analyze the piece better when there is something familiar to connect it to.
Read “Grand Allusion” by Elizabeth Samet independently Answer the questions at the bottom of the page ON YOUR OWN PAPER – do NOT write on this paper
§ “I was reminded that each unhappy allusion is unhappy in its own way. ” –Leo Tolstoy, § § § “Anna Karenina” “Don’t make it sad, Cricket, I don’t feel that way. ” — Ernest Hemingway, “To Have and Have Not” and the 1944 film adaptation “Gimme a whiskey. . And don’t be stingy, baby. ” — Eugene O’Neill’s play “Anna Christie” “Bastard Normans, Norman bastards. ” — William Shakespeare, “The Life of King Henry the Fifth” “Scylla of the swindle to the Charybdis of condescension” — Greek mythology: Scylla is a sea creature who devours sailors and Charybdis is a whirlpool opposite Scylla’s cave “… several keyboarding Natty Bumppos of my acquaintance” — James Fenimore Cooper’s The Leatherstocking Tales The title of the essay “Grand Allusion” — a play on “Grand Illusion, ” a 1937 French war film directed by Jean Renoir