What is the importance of biblical allusions?

Provide literary “authority” and deeper meaning to literature pieces

What is the Essential Question?

How can we identify & understand biblical references through resonance test

What is the resonance test?

Identifying biblical allusions through context clues

How can you identify a biblical allusion?

Searching for references to older and more expansive texts

What connection was made between the bible and Tony Morrison's Beloved?

The four horsemen of the apocalypse

How to understand Bible allusions with little to no knowledge?

Connections to older text can lead up to the Bible

Why was the older sister mad at the younger sibling in Why i live in the P.O?

She had to cook two chickens for her spoiled sister

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What is the importance of biblical allusions?
The use of the bible in dramas
Provide literary “authority” and deeper meaning to literature pieces
The mentioning of symbols, like angels in stories
Provide a sense of ''compassion''
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What is the Essential Question?
What are the steps to using ''resonance test''?
Why do authors use the bible in literature?
What is ''resonance test?
How can we identify & understand biblical references through resonance test
3
What was the desire that the young boy wanted the most?
Materialistic things like clothing and jewelry
His friend's younger sister
An apple
Praise from his friends
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Who wrote Why I live in the P.O?
James Joyce
Don Quixote
Eudora Welty
Tory Morrison
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What is the resonance test?
Guessing what bible reference is being used
Going over the quality of the literary text
Identifying biblical allusions through context clues
Taking an exam on the Bible
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How can you identify a biblical allusion?
comparing other literary texts to find unique vocab
Searching for references to older and more expansive texts
Googling the Bible
Looking at newer texts
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What connection was made between the bible and Tony Morrison's Beloved?
The serpent
The crucifixion of jesus christ
The garden of Eden
The four horsemen of the apocalypse
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How to understand Bible allusions with little to no knowledge?
Researching on the internet
Giving up
Using newer books rather than older ones
Connections to older text can lead up to the Bible
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What connection was made between the bible and James Joyce's Araby?
Adam and Eve
All of the above
The forbidden fruit
The serpent
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Why was the older sister mad at the younger sibling in Why i live in the P.O?
She didn't get to go with her sister
She wanted beef not chicken
She had to cook two chickens for her spoiled sister
Her sister stole from her and broke her trust

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