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

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

15. 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

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

25. 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.