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verification. (November 2011)| Subtext or undertone is content
of a book, play, musical work, film, video game, or television
series which is not announced explicitly by the characters (or
author) but is implicit or becomes something understood by the
observer of the work as the production unfolds. Subtext can also
refer to the thoughts and motives of the characters which are
only covered in an aside. Subtext can also be used to imply
controversial subjects without specifically alienating people
from the fiction, often through use of metaphor. Subtext is
content underneath the spoken dialogue. Under dialogue, there
can be conflict, anger, competition, pride, showing off, or
other implicit ideas and emotions. Subtext is the unspoken
thoughts and motives of characters—what they really think and
believe. Especially in light of their inherently ambiguous and
self-referential character, many auth