Sentence examples for identifying allusions from inspiring English sources

Teaching should not be trivial pursuit, nor should the reading of poetry and prose be reduced to identifying allusions or even explaining what passages "mean".

Identifying allusions and determining the accuracy of events places too great a burden on you and on me.

In this lesson, students read a Book Review essay about allusions in literature, take a quiz in which they identify allusions made in New York Times articles and headlines, then choose from a variety of activities to go deeper.

Wimsatt and Beardsley's warning that identifying an allusion does not amount to the same thing as understanding its significance has renewed urgency in the current age of allusion-­automation, for if the Web makes it that much easier for the allusion-hunter to bag his quarry, it does not necessarily tell him how to dress it.

Next, ask students to discuss this idea from today's essay: Wimsatt and Beardsley's warning that identifying an allusion does not amount to the same thing as understanding its significance has renewed urgency in the current age of allusion-­automation, for if the Web makes it that much easier for the allusion-hunter to bag his quarry, it does not necessarily tell him how to dress it.

These costumes have been identified as allusions to great predecessors.

Mr Griffin also provides copious and often pleasingly discursive footnotes to identify the allusions and people in the letters.

So he began copying every line borrowed from earlier Chinese literature onto notecards, which eventually numbered in the thousands, and reading every literary work known to have circulated in the late 16th century, to identify the allusions.

Samsung's 20% market share is number one overall, but flash comes in two forms, identified by allusions to on-off logic: Nor (the older entry, dominated by Intel) and Nand (the newer, used in memory sticks).

We do provide notes meant to be helpful, identifying events and allusions no longer familiar in our day.

Have them read one another's work, identifying and discussing the allusions and weighing in on whether each one "works" or seems tacked on for the sake of the assignment.