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WFHS Allusions

Allusions - Ms. Roberts Class

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Scapegoat Book of Leviticus
Scapegoat Day of Atonement
Scapegoat symbolically place the sins of the Israelites on a goat
Scapegoat taking the sins of the people with it
Scapegoat person who is blamed or punished for someone else's misdeeds
Flash in the Pan Flintlock rifles
Flash in the Pan ignition pan
Flash in the Pan initially shows great promise
Flash in the Pan fails to meet expectations
Don Quixote/Quixotic/Tilting at Windmills Cervantes
Don Quixote/Quixotic/Tilting at Windmills too many romances
Don Quixote/Quixotic/Tilting at Windmills knightly adventures
Don Quixote/Quixotic/Tilting at Windmills windmills
Don Quixote/Quixotic/Tilting at Windmills tilting at windmills
Don Quixote/Quixotic/Tilting at Windmills foolishly or impractically idealistic
Don Quixote/Quixotic/Tilting at Windmills naive attempt to be heroic
Benedict Arnold military leader
Benedict Arnold American Revolution
Benedict Arnold traitorous
Benedict Arnold surrender a key fort to the British
Benedict Arnold traitor
Delphic Oracle ancient Greece
Delphic Oracle Delphi
Delphic Oracle Temple of Apollo
Delphic Oracle priestess
Delphic Oracle difficult to interpret and riddle-like
Delphic Oracle ambiguous and difficult to interpret
Stealing Someone's Thunder playwright
Stealing Someone's Thunder sound effect of rattling a sheet of tin to mimic thunder
Stealing Someone's Thunder widely copied
Stealing Someone's Thunder take credit for the idea of another
Stealing Someone's Thunder lessen the effect
Stealing Someone's Thunder suggesting the same idea first
Witch Hunt 1692, in Salem, Massachusetts
Witch Hunt hysteria
Witch Hunt flimsy evidence
Witch Hunt campaign against a particular group of people
Witch Hunt unorthodox opinions
Witch Hunt unconventional manner
Throw Down the Gauntlet knighthood and chivalry
Throw Down the Gauntlet challenge another knight to a duel
Throw Down the Gauntlet heavy glove
Throw Down the Gauntlet issuing a challenge
Throw Down the Gauntlet dramatic manner
The Muses Greek mythology
The Muses nine goddesses
The Muses the arts
The Muses inspiration to mortals
The Muses epic
The Muses source of inspiration
The Muses artistic, creative endeavors
Kafkaesque Franz Kafka
Kafkaesque writer
Kafkaesque surreal, anxiety producing
Kafkaesque The Metamorphosis
Kafkaesque bizarre
Kafkaesque surreal
Kafkaesque anxiety-producing
Tower of Babel Book of Genesis
Tower of Babel tower that would reach Heaven itself
Tower of Babel different languages
Tower of Babel could not understand each other
Tower of Babel noisy confusion
Pollyanna character in children's stories
Pollyanna play the "glad game"
Pollyanna find something to be glad about in any situation, no matter how bad the situation is
Pollyanna unusually optimistic
Pollyanna always looking at the bright side
Pollyanna excessively cheerful
Pollyanna naive
Pavlov's Dogs/Pavlovian conditioned response
Pavlov's Dogs/Pavlovian rang a bell while presenting food to dogs
Pavlov's Dogs/Pavlovian automatically begin to salivate
Pavlov's Dogs/Pavlovian conditioned to associate
Pavlov's Dogs/Pavlovian automatically or instinctively responds to or obeys a signal
Pavlov's Dogs/Pavlovian automatic, unthinking response
Bedlam nickname
Bedlam Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem
Bedlam mental hospital
Bedlam wildly chaotic
Bedlam extremely raucous and noisy
The Handwriting on the Wall Book of Daniel
The Handwriting on the Wall human hand appeared
The Handwriting on the Wall translated the writing
The Handwriting on the Wall reign was over
The Handwriting on the Wall indication that doom or misfortune is coming
Albatross Around One's Neck "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" a poem
Albatross Around One's Neck Coleridge
Albatross Around One's Neck shoots an albatross
Albatross Around One's Neck wear the carcass of the albatross around his neck
Albatross Around One's Neck burdensome, ongoing problem
Prometheus/Promethean Greek mythology
Prometheus/Promethean cunning
Prometheus/Promethean Zeus withheld fire from mankind
Prometheus/Promethean Mount Olympus
Prometheus/Promethean stole some fire, which he gave to man
Prometheus/Promethean chaining him to a rock
Prometheus/Promethean valiant resistance to authority
Prometheus/Promethean rebellion against the established order of the universe
Juggernaut Hindu deity
Juggernaut large cart
Juggernaut threw themselves in front of the cart and were crushed
Juggernaut especially a destructive force
Juggernaut defies opposition
Red Herring fish
Red Herring strong, pungent smell
Red Herring confusing the hounds and diverting them
Red Herring throw the dogs off the trail
Red Herring diverting someone onto a false trail
Red Herring distracting a person from the true issue
Pharisees/Pharisaical Jewish sect that insisted on strict adherence to written law
Pharisees/Pharisaical Jesus
Pharisees/Pharisaical outwardly pious
Pharisees/Pharisaical inwardly corrupt
Pharisees/Pharisaical hypocrite
Pharisees/Pharisaical upholds the letter of the law, but not its spirit
Pharisees/Pharisaical hypocritical act
Sour Grapes "The Fox and the Grapes"
Sour Grapes fable by Aesop
Sour Grapes were probably sour anyway
Sour Grapes attitude
Sour Grapes disappointed or thwarted
Sour Grapes bitterly rationalizes
Sour Grapes not so great after all
Sold Down the River nineteenth-century America
Sold Down the River slavery
Sold Down the River sell their house servants
Sold Down the River plantation owners in the South
Sold Down the River Mississippi
Sold Down the River betrayed
Sold Down the River betrayed or misled
Sold Down the River by someone trusted
Nemesis Greek goddess of vengeance and retribution
Nemesis excessive pride
Nemesis causes his or her downfall
Pyrrhic Victory Pyrrhus
Pyrrhic Victory general
Pyrrhic Victory Greece
Pyrrhic Victory defeating the Romans
Pyrrhic Victory suffered great losses
Pyrrhic Victory winner's victory comes at such a great expense
Pyrrhic Victory scarcely better than losing
Over a Barrel rescued from drowning
Over a Barrel totally dependent
Over a Barrel unable to act independently
Over a Barrel must do the bidding of someone else
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