{"id":751,"date":"2011-01-17T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-16-it-was-just-an-illusion-or-was-it-an-allusion\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T15:06:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:06:05","slug":"day-16-it-was-just-an-illusion-or-was-it-an-allusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-16-it-was-just-an-illusion-or-was-it-an-allusion\/","title":{"rendered":"day 16: it was just an \u201cillusion\u201d (or was it an \u201callusion\u201d?)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Adding to the alluded\/eluded and allusive\/elusive quandary is the illusion\/allusion Wacky Word pair! Again, looking at roots and affixes can be a great help.<\/div>\n
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Let\u2019s start with allusion\u2014since we had alluded yesterday. (Yes, you read that right\u2014the roots are the same!)<\/div>\n
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1. Allusion (allude)<\/div>\n
a.      <\/span><\/span>Related to ludicrous: Hint\u2014\u201cWhat he alluded to was ludicrous!\u201d<\/div>\n
b.     <\/span><\/span>Related to allusion\u2014\u201cHe made an allusion to our previous conversation.\u201d<\/div>\n
c.      <\/span><\/span>If you remember the allude\/ludicrous (What he alluded to was ludicrous!), you will also remember allusion\u2014allusion is something you allude to.<\/div>\n
                                                                        <\/span>i.     <\/span><\/span>Allude is the verb—\u201cWhat did he allude to?\u201d<\/div>\n
                                                                      <\/span>ii.     <\/span><\/span>Allusion* is the noun\u2014The thing\u2014\u201cWhat was his allusion to your situation?\u201d<\/div>\n
2. Illusion<\/div>\n
      <\/span>a. Related to illustrate\u2014See that root?<\/div>\n
              <\/span>i. Illustration is a picture<\/div>\n
 <\/span>     <\/span>       <\/span>ii. Illusion is an abstract picture<\/div>\n
b.     <\/span><\/span>Used to mean a facsimile or something that appears different than it is<\/div>\n
i. \u201cThe ride gives you the illusion that you are on a mountain.\u201d<\/div>\n
ii. \u201cThey used Kleenexes to give you the illusion of fabric.\u201d<\/div>\n
iii. \u201cHer success is just an illusion.”<\/div>\n
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c.  Illusion is also related to hallucination\u2014seeing things that are not really there!<\/div>\n
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*Note: A more advanced vocabulary technique that you will learn this year on LL 365 is \u201cillustrated\u201d in suffixes\u2014tion and sion generally signify a word is a noun.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adding to the alluded\/eluded and allusive\/elusive quandary is the illusion\/allusion Wacky Word pair! Again, looking at roots and affixes can be a great help. Let\u2019s start with allusion\u2014since we had alluded yesterday. (Yes, you read that right\u2014the roots are the same!) 1. 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