AP Literature: Literary Allusions Flashcards
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| 8043214805 | All the world's a stage | reducing the life of human beings to a performance | 0 | |
| 8043214809 | Byronic | romantic poet; dark, moody, mysterious | 1 | |
| 8043214811 | Camelot | kingdom of King Arthur; represents a land of fantasy | 2 | |
| 8043214815 | Don Quixote | insane Spanish character who believes he's a knight; consequences aren't accounted for | 3 | |
| 8043214816 | Don Juan | Spanish character (man) obsessed with seducing women; thought he could escape death and pay for sins later | 4 | |
| 8043214817 | Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde character; narcissist who committed each sin to see how it affected him; avoiding death | 5 | |
| 8043214818 | Excalibur | King Arthur's sword, given to him to become King; whoever has it has the kingdom and power | 6 | |
| 8043214822 | Galahad | Arthurian knight of the round table, known for purity and gallantry; euphemism for virginity | 7 | |
| 8043214823 | Gauntlet | insulting challenge in medieval times; "running the gauntlet" means going through a challenge | 8 | |
| 8043214827 | Hatfields and McCoys | two families in the Appalachian mountains known for bitter feuds; similar to Romeo and Juliet | 9 | |
| 8043214835 | Lemmings | type of rodent that commits mass suicide; describes a person who follows people without question | 10 | |
| 8043214836 | Lilliputians | "Gulliver's Travel" tiny characters; someone or something that is small, irrelevant, or petty | 11 | |
| 8043214837 | Lothario | a guy who is a womanizer, selfish with his sexual relations with women | 12 | |
| 8043214838 | Machiavellian | Nicola Machiavelli's "The Prince" theory; holding onto power, better to be feared than loved | 13 | |
| 8043214839 | Malaprop | the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar, creating a humorous effect | 14 | |
| 8043214841 | "Marriage of true minds" | Shakespeare; a love that goes beyond a spiritual connection | 15 | |
| 8043214843 | Modest Proposal | Jonathon Swift's book about Irish Famine; a satirical work about how the way the saving their country is eating babies | 16 | |
| 8043214847 | "Out, Damned Spot!" | Shakespeare's "Macbeth"; when Lady Macbeth can't wash away blood stains from the murders they commit; referencing how one cannot escape their actions | 17 | |
| 8043214849 | Pavlovian | Ivan Pavlov's theory; reflexive and unconscious response to a stimulus | 18 | |
| 8043214851 | Poetic Justice | outcome in which bias is punished and virtue rewarded, usually in an ironically appropriate manner | 19 | |
| 8043214852 | "Pound of flesh" | Shakespeare; something that is owed and ruthlessly required to pay back | 20 | |
| 8043214853 | Primrose Path | Shakespeare's "Hamlet"; a path of ease, or of least resistance, which probably leads to downfall | 21 | |
| 8043214859 | "Sound and Fury" | Shakespeare's "Macbeth"; an uproar of little importance | 22 | |
| 8043214860 | Svengali | someone who exercises excessive control or influence over another person | 23 | |
| 8043214862 | "The best of all possible worlds" | Voltare; satire that is used to represent the benefits of widely different situations | 24 | |
| 8043214865 | Uncle Tom | "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; a black person who is eager to win the approval of white people and willing to cooperate with them; betrayal of social allegiances | 25 | |
| 8043214867 | Waterloo | battle between the French and English which ended Napoleon's rule; a defeat that is impossible to recover from | 26 | |
| 8043214868 | Yahoo | an imaginary race from "Gulliver's Travels"; a rude or violent person | 27 |