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What is a subtext?

What is a subtext? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue.
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Perhaps as a moralizing subtext, Alexander piped in a recording of a monastic chant of Psalm 51, a prayer for the remission of sins.
The comedy is, however, pusillanimously counterweighted with a solemn and Oprah-ish subtext that these are way important issues.
The learned meanings are present in the subtext, which is understood only by the initiated audiences.
As with her use of subtext, Griffith is quite modern in her use of setting to shed light on the psychology of her characters.
His seminal book postulated that depictions of the East by Western painters and writers had a Eurocentric, colonialist subtext.
The underlying subtext here is that native language belongs at home and not at school.

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