what is a literary allusion?

Question

what is a literary allusion

Answer 1

a literary allusion is something that "alludes to" or refers to something from a source outside of the novel/piece. That could be a biblical allusion, from the bible, a popular culture allusion, or something along those lines

Answer 2

We are working on these a LOT right now..

First of all, an Allusion is : an implied or indirect reference to another literary work or even in history literature.

Basically, when you are doing an allusion, you take the theme or main idea of whatever you're dealing with and compare it to another piece of literature. For example, if you are doing one of the Bible stories, you can allude Moses defeating Pharaoh to The Lion King. Both Simba and Moses talked to another source after abandoning their homeland and returned to save their own 'kingdoms.'

Answer 3

an allusion is a reference to another literary work within a literary work.
eg. you're reading a book and the title of another book, such as the Bible, is mentioned

Answer 4

Usually not just the title, but a reference to plot points - such as a guilty murderer feeling like Lady MacBeth "Is this a dagger I see before me?" or to characters within the other story, perhaps the Bronte Sisters or Nancy Drew and how they behaved or to simply an incident: in the Dies the Fire triology, several Wiccans are trying to deal with assigning people to clans and one make an anachronistic* reference to Harry Potter with "perhaps we could magic an old hat and give it a mouth so it could speak and people could put it on and it would name the clan they belong to"

* Anachronistic because the books are set in a world that totally changes in March 1998 before Potter became popular and they would never have heard of it.

Answer 5

when you write about another work within the work you are writing................RIGHT