Allusions
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allywallypaige on October 25, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Oedipus complex | romantic feelings toward mom and jealousy towards dad;oedipus the king by socrates |
| Casanova | great lover, someone who has success w/ women; memoirs of casanova |
| Mark of cain | sign of sin;book of genesis in the bible |
| Chasing the white whale | obsessed with accomplishing something; bible mobydick |
| Judas | someone who betrays a friend;bible in the new and old testament |
| benedict arnold | betrayer, gone against word; american revolution |
| catch22 | enescapable situation; catch 22 the book |
| Pandora's box | the source of a problem; hesolds works and days |
| Goliath | powerful or giant; bible, first book of samuel |
| Donnybrook | Scene of uproar; donnybrook fair |
| herculean | trying to perform a hard task; hercules , greek mythology |
| Waterloo | suffering in ultimate defeat; battle of waterloo june 18 1815 |
| Job's comforters | advice that add's to your misery; old testament book of job |
| Pyrrhic victory | victory from many losses; battle of asculum |
| Achilles heel | Person's weakness; mythology, homers illiad |
| Boswell | Persons job as a journalist; biographer, james boswell |
| Good Samaritan | Person who unselfishly helps others; New testament, luke |
| Bowdlerize | to censor; thomas bowdler |
| Promethean | Daringly original or creative; Promethius, greek god |
| Malapropism | Someone using the wrong word; ms.malaprop from the rivals |
| Protean | always changing; protus, the son of neptune |
| fiddling while rome burns | Doing something unimportant while something big is happening; Nero was fiddling while rome was burning down |
| Cutting gordian knot | solving a problem swiftly and decisively; greek mythology |
| Sell down the river | deserting or betraying for your own advantage; slavery in the 1800's |
| Killing the fatted calf | Going all out for a celebration; bible |
| Brave new world | Government trying to control its people; book, brave new world |
| gilded age | backbone of industry; the gilded age |
| Patience of Job | Alot of patience; bible book of job |
| Bacchanalian | wild,orgy party with crimes/drinking; ancient greek mythology |
| Spartan | tremendously brave person; ancient greek city , sparta |
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