Terrence Howard plays a music mogul in a new series on Fox. 1  CHICAGO â In the presidential suite of a Hilton hotel, above a ballroom full of extras waiting to shoot a lavish party scene, sat the two lead actors of âEmpire,â a new Fox series about a feuding entertainment-industry family.
Define pretext: a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs â pretext in a sentence a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairsâ¦
Posts. 88. Intertexts are literally what the word is, the text that is within a text. Allusions are references to past works, mythology, an event, a place, a person, etc. There is not always a designated purpose to allusions because sometimes they just make sense to reference wherever the author is referencing them.