Ap Literature Allusions Flashcards

7196027438	Achilles heel	Person's vulnerability or fatal flaw	0
7196027439	Adonis	A legendary handsome young man	1
7196027440	Apollo	God who representa the sun, light,music. Also a healer and protector but can inflict plague on those who agee him	2
7198949585	Argus-eyed	Vigilant or observant	3
7198980761	Athena/Minerva	Goddess of wisdom, craft, and war	4
7198980762	Atlantean	A legendary island, beautiful and prosperous	5
7198980763	bacchanalian	Characterized by or given to drunken revelry; riotously drunken	6
7198980764	Chimera	a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve	7
7198980765	Cupidity	Excessive desire for wealth	8
7198980766	Erotic	Deals with sexual love and desire tending to arouse sexual desire	9
7198980767	Furor	An outbreak of public anger or excitement	10
7198980768	Gorgon	a repulsively ugly or terrifying woman	11
7198980769	Harpy	A greedy, grasping person	12
7198980770	Hector	To bully; a prince of Troy and killed by Achilles	13
7198980771	Helen of Troy	Daughter of Zeus and Leda	14
7198980772	Herculean	having enormous strength, courage, or size.	15
7198980773	hydra-headed	A many headed serpent or monster. Cut a head off and another grows back	16
7198980774	Junoesque	stately imposing beauty; goddess who looked after the women of Rome	17
7198980775	Lethargy	Lack of energy	18
7198980776	Martial	of or relating to war or soldiers	19
7198980777	Medea	A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father	20
7198980778	Mercury/Hermes	The son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia. Considered a god of transitions and boundaries	21
7198980779	Muse	The inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts	22
7201348577	narcissism	excessive love of one's body or oneself	23
7201348578	Nemesis	Goddess of revenge, just punishment	24
7201348579	Neptune	The god of fresh water and the sea	25
7201348580	Niobe	mournful woman	26
7201348581	Odyssey	a long, adventurous voyage; a quest	27
7201348582	Olympian	Majestic	28
7201348583	Pandora's Box	A box that Zeus gave to pandora. Pandora opened it and all the evils of the world came out to damage mankind	29
7201348584	Pegasus	Winged bourse that was born from Medusas head when she was killed	30
7201348585	Phoenix	anything that is restored after suffering great destruction	31
7201348586	plutocracy	society ruled by the wealthy	32
7201348587	Promethean	creative and boldly original	33
7201348588	psyche	mind; soul	34
7201348589	Pygmalion	someone (usually a male) who tries to fashion someone into the person he desires	35
7201348590	Sisyphean	Requiring endless effort; without result or success	36
7201348591	Stygian	dark and forbidding	37
7201348592	tantalize	to tease, torment by teasing	38
7201348593	titanic	Of enormous size, strength, or power	39
7201348594	Volcanoes	originated from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, whose forge is said to be under mountains	40
7201348595	Vulcanize	To treat rubber with sulfur to increase strength and elasticity	41
7201348596	Zeus	Most powerful god of all	42
7201348597	Brobdingnagian	gigantic, enormous, on a large scale, enlarged	43
7201348598	Cinderella	A person or thing that is undeservedly neglected or ignored	44
7201348599	Don Juan	Man with a reputation for seducing women	45
7201348600	Don Quixote	Someone overly idealistic to the point of having impossible dreams	46
7201348601	Falstaffian	full of wit and bawdy humor	47
7201348602	Frankenstein	Brings a manlike creature to life	48
7201348603	Friday	Close friends and constant companions	49
7201348604	Galahad	a pure and noble man with limited ambition	50
7201348605	Jekyll and Hyde	A person marked by dusk personality	51
7201884978	Lilliputian	Very small; tiny; narrow minded	52
7201885968	Lothario	a charming young man who seduces and deceives women	53
7201887721	Pickwickian	humorous, sometimes derogatory	54
7201888873	Pollyanna	an excessively or blindly optimistic person.	55
7201889306	Quixotic	overly idealistic; impractical	56
7201890278	Scrooge	a bitter and/or greedy person	57
7201892240	Svengali	a manipulative person	58
7201893387	Uncle Tom	Someone thought to have the timid service attitude like that of a slave to his owner	59
7201893977	Uriah Heep	obsequiousness and false humility, gesture of rubbing his hands together	60
7201894783	Walter Mitty	a commonplace non-adventuresome person who seeks escape from reality	61
7201895857	Yahoo	a boorish, crass, or stupid person	62
7201897374	Alpha and Omega	Beginning and end	63
7201897385	Cain	a brother who kills a brother	64
7201899281	Daniel	synonymous with courage of one who faces great danger alone with no help	65
7201901878	David and Bathsheba	represents a big sin	66
7201902845	Eye of the Needle	A very difficult task	67
7201903716	Goliath	(Noun) something or someone large in size and stature; giant	68
7201904080	Good Samaritan	person who is helpful or compassionate	69
7201904922	Handwriting on the Wall	what the future holds	70
7201905373	Ishmael	God hears	71
7201906853	Jacob	Abraham's grandson	72
7201908550	Job	he who suffers a great deal but remains faithful	73
7201910485	Job's Comforters	"friends" who try to help by bringing blame	74
7201911761	Jonah	one who brings bad luck	75
7201912227	Absolom	a son who brings heartache to his father;	76
7201913248	Judas	a traitor	77
7201914054	King Ahab and Jezabel	Wickedness; honoring pagan gods.	78
7201918193	Manna	a sustaining life-giving source of food	79
7201919200	Original Sin/ The Fall	the idea that all men are innately sinful as a result of Adam and Eve's fall from the state of innocence	80
7201921047	Pearl of Great Price	something so precious that one would devote everything to or give up everything for it	81
7201924211	Philistine	a person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values	82
7201925038	Prodigal Son	a wasteful son who disappoints his father	83
7201925837	Ruth and Naomi	paragons of love between in-laws; faithful friends	84
7201927389	Samson and Delilah	treacherous love story	85
7201928099	Scapegoat	a person or thing carrying the blame for others	86
7201930278	Sodom and Gomorrah	Place of wickedness and sin	87
7201930651	Solomon	an extremely wise person	88
7201932518	Twelve Tribes of Israel	The name for the descendants of the twelve sons of Jacob	89
7201932855	Attila	barbarian, rough leader	90
7201935123	Bloomer	undergarment for dance or active war	91
7201936420	casanova	a seductive, often promiscuous man	92
7201937291	El Dorado	a place of reputed wealth	93
7201937957	Hackney	Adj. used so often as to lack freshness or originality	94
7201938587	Horatio Alger	Writer of novels stressing rags to riches stories of boys	95
7201940271	Machiavellian	crafty; double-dealing	96
7201939836	McCarthyism	The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism	97
7201942238	Shanghai	to cheat or steal	98
7201943215	Spartan	simple, self-disciplined	99
7201945308	Stonewall	Hinder or obstruct by evasive, delaying tactics	100
7201945990	Swiftian	satirical	101
7201947242	Thespian	Pertaining to drama or acting	102
7201947892	Waterloo	A decisive or final defeat or setback; Belgian 1816, source of Napoleon's last defeat	103
7201949227	Uncle Sam	Government of people of the United States	104
7201949942	Utopia	an ideal society	105
7201950838	Wagnerian	loud, harsh	106