AP LITERATURE: Allusions (Literature) Flashcards
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| 6659095169 | Babbit | Story: George Babbitt was the protagonist of the satirical novel Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis. Meaning: materialistic, complacent, and conformist businessman. |  | 0 |
| 6659095170 | Brobdingnag | Story: a place of giants visited in Gullivar's Travels by swift. Meaning: something of huge proportions, immense, gigantic |  | 1 |
| 6659095171 | Bumble | Story: Mr. Bumble is in Dickens's Oliver Twist and is a minor official in the workhouse where Oliver is brought up. Bumble is a cruel, fussy man with mighty ideas of his own importance Meaning: arrogance and conceit of the petty dignitary. |  | 2 |
| 6659095172 | Cinderella | Meaning:(1) a person or thing that is undeservedly neglected or ignored, (2) used to describe a transformation from poverty of plainness to prosperity or glamour, (3) refer to an undervalued service that nobody will provide for, or(4) an instruction that must be followed precisely (late-night deadline). |  | 3 |
| 6659095173 | Don Juan | Story: Spanish noble man Meaning: reputation for seducing women. |  | 4 |
| 6659095174 | Don Quixote | Story: a Spanish noble who was an individual who reaches for elaborate unrealistic dreams. Meaning: extremely idealistic, unrealistic and impractical. |  | 5 |
| 6659095175 | Pangloss | Story: In Voltaire's Candide (1759), Dr. Pangloss is the tutor who imbues Candide with his guiding philosophy that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. No matter what misfortunes they each suffer on their travels, Pangloss confidently and complacently assures Candide that things could not be otherwise. Meaning: describes a person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances. |  | 6 |
| 6659095176 | Falstaff | Story: Sir John Falstaff is the fat, witty, good-humored old knight in Shakespeare's Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Meaning: fat, jolly and debauched |  | 7 |
| 6659095177 | Frankenstein | Meaning: anything that threatens and/or destroys the person who created it |  | 8 |
| 6659095178 | Friday | Story: is in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and is the name given by Crusoe to the man he meets on his island, on a Friday, after spending many years there alone following a shipwreck. The two become close friends and constant companions. Meaning: loyal and willing assistant |  | 9 |
| 6659095179 | Galahad | Story: was the noblest knight of the Round Table, the son of Sir Lancelot and Elaine. His immaculate purity and virtue predestine him to succeed in the quest for the Holy Grail Meaning: person characterized by nobility, integrity, or courtesy. |  | 10 |
| 6659095180 | Jekyll and Hyde | Story: Dr. Jekyll discovers a drug that allows him to have a separate personality, Mr. Hyde, through which he can express the evil side of his personality. Meaning: a character with two dueling personalities, which can have either personality come out rather quickly |  | 11 |
| 6659095181 | Lilliputian | Story: In book one of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), Gulliver finds himself shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput. The tiny Lilliputians are only 6 inches tall and are as small-minded as they are small-bodied Meaning: trivial or very small, petty |  | 12 |
| 6659095182 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Story: From the name of the boy hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel LLF Meaning: excessively well-mannered or elaborately dressed young boy. |  | 13 |
| 6659095183 | Lothario | Story: a byword for libertinism Meaning: free indulgence in sensual pleasures, seducing a woman |  | 14 |
| 6659095184 | Malapropism | Story: Mrs. Malaprop is known for her aptitude for misusing long words, the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with an amusing effect Meaning: unintentional and very humorous misuse of a word/phrase |  | 15 |
| 6659095185 | Quixotic | To have impractical ideas of perfection and over idealize situations |  | 16 |
| 6659095186 | Robot | Something that looks and acts like a human, but has no emotions |  | 17 |
| 6659095187 | Rodomontade | To rant with excessive pride and self satisfaction. It often has little effect |  | 18 |
| 6659095188 | Scrooge | A character who is bitter, self-centered and greedy |  | 19 |
| 6659095189 | Milquetoast | A weak, timid, and passive character |  | 20 |
| 6659095190 | Pickwick | jovial, generous, and unworldly in character and short, plump and bespectacled in appearance. |  | 21 |
| 6659095191 | Pollyana | Someone who tends to find the good in everything, but can be foolishly or blindly optimistic |  | 22 |
| 6659095192 | Pooh-bah | Someone who is holding many offices in a high position, but can give the impression that they are more important than they actually are |  | 23 |
| 6659095193 | Simon legree | Story: is the cruel cotton plantation owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-42) to whom Tom is sold and who beats Tom to death. Meaning: brutal taskmaster. |  | 24 |
| 6659095194 | Tartuffe | Story: the hypocrite in the work Tartuffe, an Imposter Meaning: describes a religious hypocrite or a hypocritical pretender to excellence of any kind. |  | 25 |
| 6659095195 | Svengali | Story: is a musician in George Du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894) who trains Trilby's voice and makes her a famous singer. His control over her is so great that when he dies, she loses her ability to sing Meaning: someone who establishes considerable or near-total influence over someone else—a person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric influence on another, especially for a sinister purpose. |  | 26 |
| 6659095196 | Uncle Tom | Story: is a loyal and ever-patient black slave, the main character of Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin Meaning: black man whose behavior to white people is regarded as submissively servile, and by extension can refer to anyone regarded as betraying his or her cultural or social allegiance. |  | 27 |
| 6659095197 | Uriah heep | Story: is the shrewd, deceitful clerk of the lawyer Mr. Wickfield in Dickens's David Copperfield Meaning: obsequiousness and false humility, and his often repeated gesture of rubbing his hands together as he speaks |  | 28 |
| 6659095198 | Yahoo | Story: are the imaginary race of brutish creatures, resembling humans, in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726). They embody all the baser vices and instincts of the human race. Meaning: to a course, loutish, or rowdy person, or one who engages in wanton vandalism. Also, can be a rude, noisy or violent person. |  | 29 |
| 6659095199 | Walter mitty | Story: James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939) relates how a henpecked husband escapes his wife's nagging by retreating into his own world of daydreams in which he is the hero of many adventures Meaning: someone who lives in a fantasy world, especially someone who has lost touch with reality. |  | 30 |