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Novel terms question?

In a novel, sometimes an author will quote another novel, song, or poem before the novel actually begins. For example, in A Raisin in the Sun, the author quoted Langston Hughes' A Dream Deffered, the poem in which she got the title of the play from. Do you know what that's called? Thanks bunches!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    An epigraph.

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