Intertextuality

Intertextuality

1. “Imitation is the highest form of Flattery .”

2. HYPERTEXT -when a text calls for you to look up some ideas in other texts -common on online writing Device in linking a text to another web address URL

3. INTERTEXTUALITY -when you draw information on previous readings -the creation of an idea is influenced by other texts TEXT A TEXT B TEXT C TEXT D

4. Retelling The author restates what other texts contain EXAMPLE: Several passages in the New Testament retell stories found in the Old Testament

5. EXAMPLE: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a retelling of Pyramus and Thisbe

6. Allusion When an author directly or indirectly refers to an idea or passage in another text without actually quoting the text

7. Quotation The author directly lifts a string of words from another text

8. Parody a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule wrote a hilarious parody of a popular song

9. Pastiche A text written in a way that it imitates the style or other properties of another text

10. Plagiarism Pastiche isn’t just stealing. The author of pastiche always expects that the audience will know the works being imitated and appreciate that they’re seeing an imitation.