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ˈsʌbˌtɛkstsub·text

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  1. intertext

    a reference to an external text within the present text.

    Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is an intertext in Martel's Life of Pi

    Submitted by anonymous on June 14, 2020  

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  1. Anna Mierzynska:

    This test question has some kind of subtext, not expressed directly -- how many people must die so that anyone could survive, this is question about murdering.

  2. Eric Adams:

    There's a subtext to this story that I don't want to be missed, the three officers that were involved, two of them were born outside this country, one in India and one in the Dominican Republic, the third is a first generation.

  3. Judson Mitcham:

    I don't see how anyone could fail to be troubled and moved by the stockade, with its deadlines, escape tunnels and Providence Spring, that subtext of such clean, well-kept grounds is chaos and human limitation, and I can't walk across the stockade field without feeling challenged and defeated by its awful irony. Even the sky looks different from there.

  4. Jennifer Powers:

    I think a lot of people today feel a lot of gratitude toward veterans and at the same time we really want to do everything we can to protect them and this is one of those instances where we’re identifying education and protection gaps that hopefully we will act on, melanoma is on the rise, more people are dying from it, yet is the number one preventable cancer. This [population] could be subtext of that trend.

  5. Adam Skelter:

    Power's not a chalice. It's a hammer. And it only does one thing. Power smashes. The subtext of all power is extortion. It's always the threat of force, of imprisonment, the threat of death. Always.”


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