1. What is it and why do author’s use it?
Allusion
What is it and why do author’s use it?

2. Definition
a reference to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; reader is expected to be familiar with it (famous person, book, film, etc.).
very often an indirect reference to a famous person, place, event in history, or another piece of literature

3. Why use it?
With allusions, the reference isn’t explained, so that it can convey the flattering assumption that the reader shares the writer’s learning or inside knowledge.

4. Allusions in Art
Artist: Banksy
What allusion(s) do you see?

5. Allusions in Art
Here the artist is alluding to The Wizard of Oz. Anyone who has seen the film would know that Dorothy is a dewy-eyed, innocent young girl; she’d never be carrying around anything nefarious in her basket. By using Dorothy, Banksy is trying to show the audience that stop-and-frisk style inspections have gone too far.

6. Allusions in Songs Title: "Love Story" Artist: Taylor Swift
Lyric: "That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles/and my daddy said 'Stay away from Juliet'”
Title: Your Love
Artist: Nicki Minaj
Lyric: Anyway I think I met him some time before, in a different life of where I record. I mean he was Adam, I think I was Eve but my vision ends with an apple on the tree…

7. Allusions in Songs Artist: Jay Z Title: Empire State of Mind
Lyric: Yeah, I’m up at Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca Right next to De Niro, but I'll be hood forever. I'm the new Sinatra, and since I made it here I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
Artist: Kanye West
Title: Through the Wire
Lyric: "I look like Tom Cruise on Vanilla Sky, it was televised. I was in an accident like Geico"

8. Allusions in TV