ALLUSION  隱引法

Intertextual METALINGUISTIC COMMENT in the form of referrring indirectly to another text.

Allusion, veiled reference to a text presupposed to be known to the intended readership.

This must be distinguished from QUOTATION-UNMARKED which involves not veiled reference but direct unacknowledged citation..

Hypernym
  • METALINGUISTIC COMMENTRHETORICAL TROPE which consists in remarks not mainly concerned with the world but about language itself or about one's present or forthcoming message and its place in the world.
    • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
This is common in ancient Chinese literature and the explosive evolution of this form in later ages deserves a monograph in its own right.

Rhetorical device locations: 1
  • 論語 「巧言令色,

    the phrase comes from 尚書。