English TRI 1 Allusions (Not SL or HF))
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Job | godly man who Jesus strips of his riches and family because Satan says that he is only godly because his life is easy. He never challenges god and gets even more than he had before. |
| 1st Corinthians | Though i was a child, I could no longer feel as a child, could no longer react as a child. |
| Apocalypse | "Moon turning to blood" -- End of the world -- Whore of Babylon |
| Original Sin | Adam and Eve's sin against God's command |
| Jacobs Latter / Tower of Babel | Jacob = is given a passage to heaven 12 Tribes scrambled because they tried to build a tower to god |
| Horatio Algers Rags To riches | tales of people going from poverty to an elevated status in society |
| Uncle Tom | a name that means that a black person is submissive to white authority. Taken from a famed African American Slave Novel |
| Jim Crow Laws | Separate but Equal laws that created segregation in public institutions and places. Based off of the main character in the Minstrel Show |
| Jack Johnson | Champion African American Boxer who symbolized Hope. |
| Lazarus | 1. Resurrected by god 2. a beggar whom god said it is easier for a poor man to get into heaven |
| Dylan Thomas | An Irish Poet who gained acclaim for his English writings |
| Picasso and Cubism | master artist who could imitate the greats but choose to create a relatively "crazy" new style of art |
| Tinkerbell | Flying Fairy friend of Peter Pan |
| Don Quixote | delusional romantic who quests with his rational associate Sancho Panza |
| Banshee | Ghastly apparition of a women who is known for extremely load wails |
| Venus De Milo | famed statue with no arms |
| Van Gogh | Artist who was radically different and mentally insane (cut off his own ear) |
| Grapes of Wrath | Story portrays the challenges and struggles of the poverty stricken life |
| Wizard of Oz | "Ding Dong the Witch is dead" |
| Jackson Pollock | Radically different splatter-painter artist |
| Caryatid | Female form column |
| Christopher Columbus | Sailed in search of any easier trade route with India for Queen Isabella of Spain |
| Okies | Derogatory term for someone from Oklahoma |
| Davy Crockett | "Remember the Alamo" -- Texas independence proponent |
| Robber Barons | Rich barons who achieved their money primarily via illegal or theft related means |
| JFK | Assassinated. Key in the Cold War (Sputnik and Fidel=Communism) |
| Abraham Lincoln | Emancipated the slaves and was elected in the 1860 election |
| MLK Jr. | Assassinated. The face of the civil rights movement |
| Helen Keller | Blind and Deaf girl who eventually learned to read and communicate to the world |
| Watergate | Nixon scandal in which Reps broke into the Democratic National Committee and destroyed key data. Abdicated the rule |
| Divine Maternity | Mary carried God's child in a Virgin pregnancy and birth |
| Immaculate Conception v. Virgin Birth | The Birth of Mary without any "Stain" v. the non-sexual conception of Jesus |
| Daniel in the Lions den | Caste into a lions den for his faith in Yahweh but was saved and not killed by the lions |
| The Bitter Cup | represents the Crucifixion of Christ when Jesus is praying to his father in the Garden of Gethsemane |
| Cain and Able | God asked these brothers to give a sacrifice. One gave one of flesh, the other of earth. God rewarded the flesh sacrifice of A** and the other brother got jealous so he killed A** and was marked by God |
| Pearl of Great Price | Rich man trades all of his jewels and riches for this symbol of salvation |
| The Whore of Babylon | The name for the city that represented sin and unholiness. One of the 3 bad cities of the ancient world. |
| Nathan the Prophet | Reprimands King David for committing adultery with Bathsheba |
| Judas | Betrays Jesus to the authorities for a small sum of money |
| 3 Temptations of Christ | Jesus fasts for 40 days in the desert and Satan comes across him and tries to tempt him. Christ overcomes these temptations and is rewarded greatly for it. |
| Lot and His Wife | Lot is told to flee (from Sodom or Gomorrah) but told not to look back or else he will be sucked back in. His wife looks back.... and is sucked in. |
| The Piéta | depicts the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Jesus after his crucifixion. |
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