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M.A. Instruction and Curriculum; Thirteen years teaching experience; International & US Public Schools; Writing, Literature, History, & Humanities

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Allusion and Implication & Inference

March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment

Objective (really one objective written from two different perspectives):

Understand how authors IMPLY meaning though ALLUSION
Know how to INFER meaning by investigating references

Warm-up

Read the following excerpt from the Worsley OnLine school project

An allusion is a literary device that stimulates ideas, associations, and extra information in the reader’s mind with only a word or two. [...]

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