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Examples of Allusion -"I was not born in a manger.

I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the Planet Earth." (Senator Barack Obama, speech at a fund-raiser for Catholic charities, October 16, 2008) -"I violated the Noah rule: predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does." (Warren Buffett) - 'The rest, since there was no more to build on there, turned to their affairs The first allusion is an allusion relating to superman made by Barack Obama in 2008. He relates to the movie and comic book hero, Superman. The second allusion relates to the bible. The third, and final allusion relates to a poem by Robert Frost.

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