Allusion: an
implied or indirect reference
Allusions
can be literary, historical, scientific, etc.
You are
responsible for making 9 historical
allusions in your creative piece!!!
Which word or phrase is an
allusion?
In Millais’s painting, Ophelia dies faceup
Millais’s painting is an allusion to a famous painting of Ophelia.
Ophelia is an allusion to a
character in the play Hamlet.
When Bellocq doesn’t like a
photograph
he scratches across the plate.
The scratching of the photograph
is an allusion to the photos taken by Bellocq where
women’s faces were mysteriously scratched out.
the sanatorium, a sick sister, her
body
Invaded by the invisible specter
of our work.
This passage is alluding to Bellocq’s photo of a woman visiting her sick friend. The
invisible specter an allusion to sexually transmitted infections.
Poem Titles with Allusions
Blue
Book – Blue Book is an allusion to the
catalog kept in Storyville with details about the
prostitutes in the brothels.
Letters
from Storyville – Storyville is an allusion to the historical district in