FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JOHN MILTON
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allusion.
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paradox.
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personification.
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oxymoron.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sample Sentence:The plush hotel was like the Garden of Eden. Bible Reference: Genesis 3:1-7-Tempted by the serpent, Eve took fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and ate it and then gave it to Adam. After they ate of the forbidden fruit, God cast them out of the Garden of Eden.
Detailed explanation-2: -Allusion Examples in Everyday Speech "Chocolate cake is my Achilles heel.” The allusion here is to “Achilles’ heel, ” or the Greek myth about the hero Achilles and how his heel was his one weakness. In this case, the speaker’s “weakness” is chocolate cake.
Detailed explanation-3: -variable noun. An allusion is an indirect reference to someone or something.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is Allusion? Allusion (pronounced ah-LOO-zhun) is basically a reference to something else. It’s when a writer mentions some other work, or refers to an earlier part of the current work. In literature, it’s frequently used to reference cultural works (e.g. by alluding to a Bible story or Greek myth).