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Review for senior allusion final
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Hamlet
; something is off, not right
"the horror, the horror"
"there is something rotten"
"slings and arrows"
"best of times, worst of times"
2
Bible; never lost faith, even during difficult times
Tower of Babel
Jonah and the Whale
Abraham's test
Test of Job
3
handling a serious situation carelessly; not giving it enough importance
"Nero fiddled while Rome burned"
witching hour
"Nevermore!"
Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed
4
novel about a scientist who creates a man out of various body parts and electricity
Dorian Gray
The Scarlet Letter
Paradise Lost
Frankenstein
5
Novel by Joseph Heller; lose-lose situation
gauntlet
Catch-22
Ozymandium
"a time for everything"
6
Bible; Mary conceived Jesus without having sex
poetic justice
Malaprop
Immaculate Conception
Ozymandium
7
time of night when evil is at its most potent
Camelot
witching hour
"a time for everything"
"full of sound and fury"
8
a gift from Sparta that ended up leading to this city's downfall
Four Horsemen
Plagues of Egypt
Venus de Milo
Trojan Horse
9
a difficult initiation trial or test of endurance; signifies a challenge to a fight
"pound of flesh"
"slings and arrows"
gauntlet
Dog Days
10
Chinese opposites; must be in balance with each other
yin/yang
Xanadu
"center cannot hold"
catharsis
11
novel by Miguel Cervantes: extreme chivalry and adventure
salad days
Dorian Gray
Epic of Gilgamesh
Don Quixote
12
Bible: God protected his loyalty; faith will get you through tough times
Joan of Arc
Byronic hero
God's promise to Abraham
Daniel and the lion's den
13
Bible; the first murder
Benedict Arnold
Cain and Able
Iago
Mad Hatter
14
Bible: story of the underdog who is victorious
Good Samaritan
David and Goliath
Moses parts the Red Sea
phoenix
15
Shakespeare; the problem
"best of times, the worst of times"
"slings and arrows"
"there is something rotten"
"aye, there's the rub"
16
used to describe Helen of Troy's beauty
"for whom the bell tolls"
"best of all possible worlds"
"face that launched a 1,000 ships)
"out, damned spot!"
17
Greek phrase for "seize the day"
"Nero fiddled while Rome burned"
carpe diem
catharsis
Lolita
18
10 plights sent by God to persuade Pharaoh to free Hebrew slaves
Plagues of Egypt
Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed
Salad Days
Pilgrimage
19
God would not put us in an awful place
"a time for everything"
"all the world's a stage"
"best of all possible worlds"
"best of times, the worst of times"
20
Greek mythology; must do impossible tasks
Sisyphus and Prometheus
Achilles' Heel
Jonah and the Whale
Test of Job
21
religious journey to a holy place, shrine
pilgrimage
Dog Days
Immaculate Conception
Alpha and Omega
22
Romans believed when constellation Sirius was in the sky, it was the worse times.
Four Horsemen
Pavlov's dogs
"there is something rotten"
dog days
23
F. Scott Fitzgerald novel: man consumed by wealth, possessions
Gatsby
Casanova
Mad Hatter
Scrooge
24
Greek mythology; half god/half human with extreme strength
Icarus
Hercules
Achilles
Iago
25
Bible; person who does a good deed
Good Samaritan
Icarus
Jonah and the Whale
Byronic hero
26
French woman who led her country to victory in the 100 Years War
Joan of Arc
Bloody Mary
Venus de Milo
Jezebel
27
Greek mythology; obsessed with self; vain
Achilles
Iago
Narcissus
Icarus
28
Great Expectations
; woman who pines for a lost love
Miss Havisham
Venus de Milo
Waterloo
Pandora
29
American Revolution; now a name for a traitor
Benedict Arnold
Hatfields and McCoys
Brutus and Cassius
Ozymandium
30
famous Renaissance statue of a Biblical figure
Michelangelo's David
Good Samaritan
Sisyphus and Prometheus
Venus de Milo
31
Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge; get kicked out of Garden of Eden
Tower of Babel
fall of Man
Garden of Eden
Mark of the Beast
32
traitors; betrayed Julius Caesar
Icarus
Brutus and Cassius
Cyrano de Bergerac
Benedict Arnold
33
Shakespeare; conniving villain
Scrooge
Narcissus
Iago
Icarus
34
good character wins/bad character loses
Good Samaritan
poetic justice
Byronic hero
malaprop
35
large, grand, but devoid of meaning; poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pilgrimage
Fall of Man
Ozymandium
Pandemonium
36
two feuding American families; petty or pointless argument
Hatfields and McCoys
Adam and Eve
Samson and Delilah
Cain and Able
37
Bible: God promises not to completely destroy the earth again
Flood and Covenant
God's promise to Abraham
test of Job
Ten Commandments
38
Bible; first man and woman God created
Samson and Delilah
Cain and Able
Adam and Eve
Alpha and Omega
39
Bible: God created world and everything in it in seven days
Flood and Covenant
"best of all possible worlds"
Creation story
Ten Commandments
40
William Butler Yeats poem; what holds us together is collapsing
"pound of flesh"
"dark satanic mills"
"winter of our discontent"
"center cannot hold"
41
insane character from Alice in Wonderland
Mad Hatter
Song of the Siren
Xanadu
Miss Havisham
42
man could not look at his picture in order to remain ageless
Don Juan
Don Quixote
Cain and Able
Dorian Gray
43
carved over the entrance to Hell
"abandon all hope, ye who enter here"
"for whom the bell tolls"
"the center cannot hold"
"aye, there's the rub"
44
Catholic, English queen who burned Protestants at the stake
Bloody Mary
Pandora
Venus de Milo
Joan of Arc
45
Gulliver's Travels; tiny humans
Excalibur
Lilliputians
lemmings
malapropism
46
Bible; show of loyalty--told to sacrifice his son
Armageddon
test of Job
Abraham's test
David and Goliath
47
famous magical sword of King Arthur
gothic
fall of Man
Excalibur
"Nevermore!"
48
1984
; secret organization that watches your every move to see if you go against the government
Cain and Able
Thought Police
Mark of the Beast
Big Brother
49
Bible; final battle between good and evil
mark of the Beast
Armageddon
Apocalypse
plagues of Egypt
50
A Tale of Two Cities
; shows gap between rich and poor
"best laid plans"
Paradise Lost
"out, damned spot"
"best of times, the worst of times"
51
Shakespeare; something that is owed
"slings and arrows"
"a time for everything"
"winter of our discontent"
"pound of flesh"
52
Bible; laws for Hebrews; given to Moses
Flood and Covenant
Abraham's test
Ten Commandments
God's promise to Abraham
53
Edgar Allan Poe; said by the raven
"pound of flesh"
"winter of our discontent"
"out damned spot"
"Nevermore!"
54
mythical bird that is reborn from its ashes; cycle of life
albatross
Xanadu
"Nevermore!"
phoenix
55
King Arthur's legendary castle; utopia
phoenix
Camelot
Excalibur
Lilliputians
56
The Odyssey
; lure sailors to their death; irresistible temptation
Four Horsemen
Fall of Man
witching hour
Song of the Siren
57
George Orwell's
1984
; government is always watching
Narcissus
Big Brother
Four Horseman
"dark satanic mills"
58
Norse mythology; where battle heroes go in the afterlife
Waterloo
Garden of Eden
Pandemonium
Valhalla
59
Macbeth; describes pointlessness of life
"winter of our discontent"
"aye, there's the rub"
"center cannot hold"
"full of sound and fury"
60
Macbeth; black stain on soul; feelings of guilt
Banquo's Ghost
"out, damned spot"
"full of sound and fury"
"there is something rotten"
61
Bible; parted waters in order for Hebrews to flee
Birth of Moses
"a time for everything"
Tower of Babel
Moses parts the Red Sea
62
Babylonian; oldest known literary texts; features immortality
Epic of Gilgamesh
Heart of Darkness
Paradise Lost
Valhalla
63
poem; line references the evils of Industrial Revolution
"dark satanic mills"
"best of times, the worst of times"
"the horror, the horror!"
"out, damned spot"
64
famous Venetian lover
Casanova
Don Juan
Gatsby
Cyrano de Bergerac
65
Hamlet
; bad things in life--you can either fight back or let them ruin you
"there is something rotten"
"Nero fiddled while Rome burned"
"slings and arrows"
"for whom the bell tolls"
66
Greek mythology; don't get too cocky; he flew too close to the sun
Icarus
lemmings
Iago
Achilles
67
Shakespeare; a sign of a guilty conscience
dog days
Bloody Mary
gothic
Banquo's ghost
68
Bible; a manipulative, evil woman
Miss Havisham
Lolita
Jezebel
Joan of Arc
69
will arrive during the Apocalypse; will bring war, pestilence, famine, death
Trojan Horse
Plagues of Egypt
Four Horsemen
Xanadu
70
Greek alphabet; from beginning to end
catharsis
Alpha and Omega
"the center cannot hold"
carpe diem
71
poem by Robert Burns; something can always go wrong
"the horror, the horror!"
"best laid plans"
"full of sound and fury"
"Nero fiddled while Rome burned"
72
Russian novel about a sexually advanced young girl
The Scarlet Letter
Pandora's Box
Lolita
Catharsis
73
type of character who has a troubled past, is isolated from society
hero
Oedipal hero
Byronic hero
Shellian hero
74
Greek word for "purification" or emotional cleansing
Lolita
carpe diem
Catharsis
Pandemonium
75
French swordsman; known for a large nose
Scrooge
Cyrano de Bergerac
Don Juan
Big Brother
76
world's greatest lover
Don Juan
Narcissus
Dorian Gray
Cyrano de Bergerac
77
large burden you have to bear
albatross
Oedipus Complex
Heart of Darkness
"best laid plans"
78
small rodent; don't think for yourself
phoenix
Lilliputians
lemmings
albatross
79
capital of Hell in
Paradise Lost
; chaos
"dark satanic mills"
Gothic
Pandemonium
Excalibur
80
novel; woman exiled for having a child out of wedlock
Scarlet Letter
Heart of Darkness
Dorian Gray
Lolita
81
Bible; end of the world; lasts seven years
Armageddon
dog days
"center cannot hold"
Apocalypse
82
Bible; evil towns demolished
Sodom and Gomorrah
Yin/Yang
Daniel and the Lion's Den
Tower of Babel
83
Shakespeare: various phases in a person's life
"all the world's a stage"
"slings and arrows"
"winter of our discontent"
"full of sound and fury"
84
genre known for supernatural, exotic, horrifying elements
Yin/Yang
Gothic
Oedipus Complex
Lolita
85
John Donne poem; we are all connected
"best of all possible worlds"
"for whom the bell tolls"
"full of sound and fury"
"a time for everything"
86
Heart of Darkness; quotation that references the evil inside us all
"there is something rotten"
"the horror, the horror!"
"abandon all hope, ye who enter here"
"full of sound and fury"
87
psychology experiment; don't think--just react
Test of Job
Oedipus Complex
Pavlov's Dogs
Gauntlet
88
Greek mythology; woman who let evil into the world; evils of curiosity
Samson and Delilah
Bloody Mary
Lolita
Pandora's Box
89
Bible; most evil number
Armageddon
Salad Days
Nevermore!
Mark of the Beast
90
Bible; there is a purpose and place for everything
"a time for everything"
Immaculate Conception
"best of all possible worlds"
"full of sound of fury"
91
novel; man ventures into the deep of the jungle and finds the breakdown of civilzation
Don Quixote
Heart of Darkness
Paradise Lost
Epic of Gilgamesh
92
best time of your life; golden period
Garden of Eden
Salad Days
"best of times, worst of times"
Valhalla
93
Satirical essay that offers a solution to Ireland's poverty and famine problem.
The Scarlet Letter
Paradise Lost
"A Modest Proposal"
fall of Man
94
Freudian psychological theory: want to kill father to sleep with mother
Pavlov's Dogs
"The horror, the horror!"
Oedipus Complex
Lolita
95
epic poem that depicts Satan's fall from Heaven
Catch-22
The Scarlet Letter
Paradise Lost
Frankenstein
96
Bible; woman betrayed this man by cutting his hair
Samson and Delilah
Sisyphus and Prometheus
Alpha and Omega
Hatfields and McCoys
97
God's vow that his descendants will number the stars; the Israelite nation
God's promise to Abraham
Test of Job
Samson and Delilah
Jonah and the Whale
98
your weakness
catharsis
Achilles' Heel
carpe diem
Gatsbyesque
99
misuse a word; replace correct word with a word that sounds very close to it
"slings and arrows"
pilgrimage
malaprop
catch-22
100
A Christmas Carol
; curmudgeon, ill-tempered
Mad Hatter
Hatfields and McCoys
Big Brother
Scrooge
101
Bible; utopia where Adam and Eve lived
Garden of Eden
Valhalla
Ozymandium
Waterloo
