The fancy word for this is intertextuality, when one text incorporates and connects to another. Discover everything about the word fancy in english Fancy, fantasy, imagination refer to qualities in literature or other artistic composition The creations of fancy are casual, whimsical, and often amusing, being at once less profound and less moving or inspiring than those of imagination Letting one's fancy play freely on a subject Something about the movie really struck/caught/tickled/took their fancy
[=something about the movie appealed to them very much] she took a fancy to the stray dog [=she formed a liking for the stray dog] a passing fancy [=a liking that lasts only a short time] A fancy way of asking for a loan. English dictionary and integrated thesaurus for learners, writers, teachers, and students with advanced, intermediate, and beginner levels. Some common synonyms of fancy are conceive, envisage, envision, imagine, realize, and think While all these words mean to form an idea of, fancy suggests an imagining often unrestrained by reality but spurred by desires.
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