Usually means: Indirect references to something known.
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  1. allusions: Merriam-Webster
  2. allusions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. allusions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Allusions, allusions: Wordnik
  5. allusions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. allusions: Wiktionary
  7. allusions: Dictionary.com
  8. allusions: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Allusions: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Allusions: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Allusions: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (allusion)

▸ noun:  An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned.
▸ Also see allusion


Opposite:
references, direct statements, explicit statements

Types:
simile, metaphor, allegory, hyperbole, personification, synecdoche, irony, more...

Adjectives:
many, literary, classical, frequent, such, historical, biblical, few, several, numerous, personal



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Opposite:
references, direct statements, explicit statements

Types:
simile, metaphor, allegory, hyperbole, personification, synecdoche, irony, more...

Adjectives:
many, literary, classical, frequent, such, historical, biblical, few, several, numerous, personal




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