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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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The underlying subtext here is that native language belongs at home and not at school.
The comedy is, however, pusillanimously counterweighted with a solemn and Oprah-ish subtext that these are way important issues.
The jaunty works, populated by animals, have a lot to say to an audience thirsty for fun and a dark subtext.
The placing of this paean in the mouth of Cranmer would defuse any audience disapproval of a Mariological subtext.
Perhaps as a moralizing subtext, Alexander piped in a recording of a monastic chant of Psalm 51, a prayer for the remission of sins.
As with her use of subtext, Griffith is quite modern in her use of setting to shed light on the psychology of her characters.

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