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  2. Utamakura - Wikipedia

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    Utamakura is a category of poetic words, often involving place names, that allow for greater allusions and intertextuality across Japanese poems.. Utamakura enables poets to express ideas and themes concisely—thus allowing them to stay in the confines of strict waka structures.

  3. Allusion - Wikipedia

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    Backside of a clay tablet from Pylos bearing the motif of the Labyrinth, an allusion to the mythological fight of Theseus and the Minotaur. In the most traditional sense, allusion is a literary term, though the word has also come to encompass indirect references to any source, including allusions in film or the visual arts. [8]

  4. Honkadori - Wikipedia

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    Because poetry in Japan was often written for utaawase, or poetry competitions, a “good” poem was not merely one that expressed emotions in a unique and beautiful way. Rather, poets were judged on their mastery of using their knowledge of existing poems and the way in which they placed honkadori and other poetic tropes into their poems.

  5. List of cultural references in The Cantos - Wikipedia

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    The range of allusion to historical events and other works of literature is very broad, and abrupt changes occur with the minimum of stage directions. This list serves as a collection of links to information on a wide range of these references with clear indications of the cantos in which they appear.

  6. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  7. Ziva Ben-Porat - Wikipedia

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    She is currently a poetry and comparative literature professor at Tel Aviv University. Her academic work includes a focus on cognitive intertextuality, cultural memory, and cultural representations. Ben-Porat also works on CULTOS, a digital library of multimedia linked on the basis of their intertextual relations.