An
is an indirect reference to a person, place, thing, text, or event
with which one's audience would be familiar. The purpose of an allusion is to borrow
emotionaland mood from the source, and it almost functions like insider knowledge possessed by
the writer/speaker and their audience. Puritan ministerrelied heavily on the Bible, alluding to
it frequently during this sermon, because he believed that the word of God was powerful enough
to get people's attention and compel them to change their sinful behaviors. His audience would
already be very familiar with the Bible, as Puritans believed that people needed to read the
Bible for themselves in order to create...
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