Lines from poems and plays frequently serve as inspiration for later literary allusions. This 12-question quiz is crafted from a running list created by the Book Review’s staff to test your knowledge ...

One of the most widespread — and, I think, important — literary techniques is allusion. To quote J.A. Cuddon’s definition in “The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory,” an allusion ...

Hinting at or making an indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event or idea. A lot of the time, allusions refer to another piece of writing. “When it came to spending money, he was a total ...

Literary devices are specific ways of using language or other literary elements that we can recognise and identify in a text (a piece of writing). These can work either at a word or sentence level or ...

I dedicate this article to Mark Fisher, whose writing on themes that run close to S.T.A.R.V.E.’s heart serves as another intertextual source of power for the LP. In 2014, Fisher wrote: "The pandemic ...

I would endorsed the reader’s view had the sports desk used “dark continent’. However, my dilemma arose from the fact that the headline was inspired by Joseph Conrad’s classic, Heart of Darkness. The ...

Those familiar with Sterling Archer know that he’s a hypercapable spy, unapologetic jerk, and also, somewhat surprisingly, something of a bibliophile. His raucous one-liners are frequently peppered ...