Allusions In Literature

1) The language of reading is a set of rules that are used to better understand a piece of work. Memory, symbol, and patterns help us understand the language of reading. These three things must be applied when reading a piece of literature. Symbolic imagination is the ability to look beyond the plot of the story and see the patterns inside the book. This is an important skill to have when trying to understand the language of literature.
2) Foster means that all stories take ideas from other stories. There is no story that is completely original without any similarity to another piece of work. All the stories are connected in some way. I agree with this statement. Foster gives examples such as “role and fate of minor characters from Hamlet in
This idea helps me think about the significance of allusions in literature by explaining how allusions attract readers to a story and helps them better it.
4) Rain and snow are often paradoxical symbols because they represent mood and atmosphere in a book. They can show life or death, pain or peace, hope or hopelessness. It can often have contradictory effects by the situation in which it is presented. When rain occurs during a funeral it represents sorrow, but when it rains after a long drought it bring happiness.
5) By literal thinking foster is talking about how a writer can focus on a story and skill bring in ideas from outside sources. This helps me rethink the role of a writer’s intentionality because it shows that they can put in things into a book or a character’s development that may not have much to do with the book and readers can find things that they overlooked the first
He loves the type of political writing that is involved in the world, the people and everything around it. The type of writing that is complicated and also interesting. These include the “Declaration of Independence” or any other historic political document. He also says that “nearly all writing is political on some level” (p. 117). I don’t agree with this too much because to me political documents are a set of rules or orders and not all writing is like this.
7) Intertextuality is the connection between two pieces of work. It is something that has both writings have inside of them. If there was a book written about WWII in 1945 and in 2015 then both would have similar topics. The way the topic is approached may be different, but the content would be the same. An archetype is the reoccurrence of a story component. Intertextuality and archetype prove that all stories are connected and together make one large