Monday, September 12, 2011

Extra Credit Rhetorical Device: Allusion

Definition: An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event

Function: to lend authority to an idea, to make an association with something the reader knows.

Example:
"Psalm 23: 'Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me.'"
-President George W Bush, 9/11 speech

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