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Allusion

Allusion. Academic Vocabulary Word #9 Please write the word and the date in your vocabulary book, but do NOT write anything else. What are the allusions?. Describing someone as a “Romeo” makes an allusion to: the famous young lover in Romeo and Juliet someone from the city of Rome

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Allusion

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  1. Allusion Academic Vocabulary Word #9 Please write the word and the date in your vocabulary book, but do NOT write anything else.

  2. What are the allusions? • Describing someone as a “Romeo” makes an allusion to: • the famous young lover in Romeo and Juliet • someone from the city of Rome • a rapper • She was breathtakingly beautiful, but he knew that she was forbidden fruit—is an allusion to the story of: • Of Mice and Men • The Crucible • The Garden of Eden-Biblical Story

  3. What are the allusions? • He snarled over his shoulder, “I’ll be back!” is an allusion to: • the wolf in “The Three Little Pigs” • The Terminator • The caboose in “The Little Engine That Could” • To be or not be, that was Johnny’s dilemma—makes an allusion to: • West Side Story • The Wizard of Oz • Shakespeare’s Hamlet

  4. Allusions in TKAM • Page 6: When describing Maycomb, Scout says that “Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” • Page 56: Scout describes Miss Maudie as loving everything on God’s green earth with one exception: “If she found a blade of nut grass in her yard it was like the Second Battle of the Marne…” • Page 274: As Atticus gives his powerful closing argument, he says, “… there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.”

  5. Allusions in rap… • I’m full strength like a Cyclops‘s eye drops,
I got support like high-tops.- Ugly Duckling, Left Behind. • “The side lines is lined with casualties
Who sip the life casually, then gradually become worse Don’t bite the apple, Eve”-Jay-Z, Empire State of Mind • “Hood phenomenon, the Lebronof rhyme / hard to be humble when you stuntin’ on the Jumbo-Tron” – Kanye West, “Devil in a New Dress”

  6. Allusion • Take three minutes to • write down some descriptions of the word allusion. These are YOUR OWN ideas, not someone else’s, so DON’T TALK about them yet. • jot down related terms • draw a picture/symbols that you think relates to the term (and can help you remember the term)

  7. Allusions can make references to: • Moments in history • Famous literary works • Famous films or songs • Important people and/or their quotations • Significant documents • Etc.

  8. Allusions… • The speaker almost never explains what they are alluding to… • They are generally references that are understood by the audience.

  9. In Mockingbird… • P. 6 • P. 56 • P. 79 • P. 274

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