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Allusions Test 3
1st 6 weeks
Question | Answer |
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Delilah | noun - seductive, treacherous woman Samson's mistress who betrayed him to Philistines Biblical |
Elysian | adj. - blissful; delightful from Elysian Fields in the Lower World - home of the blessed or purified after death. Mythology |
Epicurean | noun or adj. - one with sensitive descriptive taste - gourmet; fond of luxuries and sensual pleasures. from Epicurus - Greek philosopher Believed in emotional calm, the highest good was intellectual pleasures, etc. Historical |
Frankenstein | noun – anything that threatens or destroys its creator from the young scientist in Mary Shelly’s novel of this name, who created a monster that eventually destroys him Literary |
Galahad | noun – a pure and noble man with limited ambition in the legends of King Arthur, the purest and most virtuous knight of the Round Table, the only knight to find the Holy Grail Literary |
Gerrymander | noun/verb - to divide into electoral districts to give unfair advantage to one political party; to manipulate unfairly. from Gov. of Mass. in 1812 Historical |
Golgotha | noun - a place of unusual, intensive suffering, or sacrifice Calvary, a place outside of Jerusalem where Christ was crucified Biblical |
Goliath | noun - a giant Champion of the Philistines - killed by young David with a slingshot and a rock. Biblical |