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Unit 3: Literature and identity
Quick questions on Intertextuality and allusion in QCE Literature Unit 3
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how do they change the host text once imported?Show answer
An allusion that is named but not analysed is a footnote, not an argument, and the criteria reward the argument. :::
What is allusion?Show answer
An allusion is a brief reference to another text: a quoted phrase, a named figure, an echoed image. An allusion works by importing the associations of the source into the new context. When a text alludes to an older story of betrayal, it borrows that story's weight and lays it over the present scene, asking the reader to read the two together. The effect depends on the reader recognising the source, which is itself a way the text addresses a particular audience.
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