literary allusion

• referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
• quotationCited passage or price
• classicalOf ancient Greece/Rome
• mythologyBody of traditional tales
• biblicalOf sacred texts

Shakespeare · metaphor · echo · intertextuality · homage · nod · wink · subtext · symbolism · annotation · footnote · literary · canonical · Odyssey · paradise · Icarus · forbidden fruit · Achilles

• modernist literatureJoyce, Woolf, James Joyce, Kafka, Hemingway
• Chinese Poetryquatrains, classical verse, ancient verse, rhymed verse, nature poetry
• adaptationsfilm adaptation, film adaptations, movie adaptation, TV adaptation, TV adaptations
• DanteDivine Comedy, Inferno, Dante, Paradiso, Beatrice
• Perseus mythPerseus, Andromeda, Medusa, Pegasus, Gorgon
• PlatoPlato, academy, Academy, allegory, the Republic