Translation for 'Allusion' from English to Dutch

allusion

allusie {de}

toespeling {de}

• is an allusion within a poem to an older poem which would be generally recognized by its potential readers.
• Lehman to remark that "the novel's allusion to Conrad works nicely, even if it is not really an allusion to Conrad".
• Several writers have interpreted this warning as an allusion to atomic weapons.
• Allusion is not pastiche. A literary allusion may refer to another work, but it does not reiterate it.
• Taiwan's China policy of "Mainlandpolitik" is named in allusion to "Ostpolitik".

• (1967) is an allusion to the Shelley elegy, Stanza 47, line 415.
• Snake oil is a fraudulent marketing allusion to the selling of fake medicines.
• Because it was made during World War II, the painting has often been interpreted as an allusion to the ongoing battles.
• Noah's wine is a colloquial allusion meaning alcoholic beverages.
• The character on the right, dressed as a Muslim, is addressed by a man pointing at the woman (an allusion to the man's need to convert).

• In particular, musical references are a characteristic trait of the Boogiepop novels, such as the character Echoes being an allusion to the Pink Floyd song of the same name, which itself is a possible allusion to "2001: A Space Odyssey" with its themes of evolution and transcendence.
• Allusion is a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly.
• Other allusions may also exist in the story, including the character Bruntilda being an allusion to Brunhilde, a Valkyrie of Germanic mythology; and Gondorff the Grey being a possible allusion to Henry Gondorff, a character from the 1973 film "The Sting".