AP LITERATURE ALLUSIONS SUMMER HOMEWORK QTR. 1 Flashcards
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| 14978829915 | Albatross around one's neck | a terrible burden that has to be carried |  | 0 |
| 14978838445 | "Balm in Gilead" | a scarce perfume used as medicine |  | 1 |
| 14978840200 | Byronic | traits of Lord Byron's poetry |  | 2 |
| 14978841712 | Cain and Abel (Genesis 4) | the sons of Adam and Eve |  | 3 |
| 14978845169 | Camelot | King Arthur's castle/court |  | 4 |
| 14978845170 | Cassandra | a woman from Greek mythology through a curse to speak real prophecies to disbelieve |  | 5 |
| 14978854122 | Catch 22 | no win situation deemed by a rule or circumstance |  | 6 |
| 14978854123 | Cleopatra | a famous Egyptian queen for her love affairs |  | 7 |
| 14978856531 | creation myths | a cultural myth that describes the start of the present world |  | 8 |
| 14978857619 | crown of thorns | the headpiece that was worn by Jesus during his crucifixion or the symbol of his suffering for people |  | 9 |
| 14978861162 | Darwinian | Darwin's theory relating to evolution |  | 10 |
| 14978863884 | Falstaffian | fat, jolly, and debauched |  | 11 |
| 14978865807 | Florence Nightingale | an English social reformer and statistician who founded modern nursing |  | 12 |
| 14978867307 | Gilgamesh | a historical king and hero from ancient Mesopotamian mythology |  | 13 |
| 14978869406 | Frankenstein | fictional monster from a story written by Mary Shelley |  | 14 |
| 14978871005 | Prometheus | (Greek mythology) the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to mankind |  | 15 |
| 14978872850 | Dante's Inferno | The first of three parts of Dante's epic poem, The Divine Comedy, which depicts an imaginary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dante is the hero, who loses his way in the "dark woods" and journeys to nine regions arranged around the wall of a huge funnel in nine concentric circles representing Hell. |  | 16 |
| 14978875215 | Paradise Lost | an epic poem in blank verse by John Milton |  | 17 |
| 14978878245 | Plutarch's Lives | 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, |  | 18 |