Name:
Mrs. Cammarata and Miss Lombardi
English III CP
TFIOS Research Assignment – Allusion PowerPoint
Look over the list of allusions in the novel. Select three allusions (one from each
group) to research. Create a Google Slides presentation (with pictures and facts) to
teach the class about your allusions. Be sure to include a slide for your citations!
This is worth a quiz grade.
Group 1:
Frederick Douglass (pg. 41)
Bacchus/Dionysus (pg. 69)
Sisyphus (pg. 70)
Emily Dickinson (pg. 71)
Funky Bones (pg. 86)
Vladimir and Estragon – Waiting for Godot (pg. 88)
Stoicism (pg. 88)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare (pg. 111)
Group 2:
Sonnet 55 – William Shakespeare (pg. 112)
Archibald MacLeish (pg. 112)
Anne Frank (pg. 126)
Henry David Thoreau, Walden “Where I Lived and What I Lived For” (pg.148)
Battle of Thermopylae (pg. 149)
Allen Ginsberg & Howl (pg. 152)
T.S. Eliot (pg.153)
Rene Magritte (pg. 178)
Group 3:
Zeno (pg. 187)
Parmenides (pg. 187)
Georg Cantor (pg. 189)
Gestapo (pg. 199)
Wallace Stevens (pg. 204)
Abraham Maslow (pg. 211)
William Carlos Williams (pg. 246)
Robert Frost (pg. 278)
Toni Morrison (pg. 278)