AP Literature & Composition
Miss Sloan
Common allusions
15 minutes of fame
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse
A Modest Proposal
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here
Abraham and Isaac
Absalom
Achilles/Achilles’ heel
Acropolis
Adam & Eve
Adonis
Aegean
Aeneas
Aeneid
Aeschylus
Aesop
Agamemnon
Ahab
Aladdin’s lamp
Alas, poor Yorick
Albatross around one’s neck
All roads lead to Rome
All the world’s a stage
Alpha and Omega
Am I my brother’s keeper?
American Gothic (image)
Antigone
Aphrodite
Apollo
Apple (forbidden fruit)
Armageddon
Atlas
Babylon (Alas, Babylon)
Bard of Avon
Beat Generation
Best laid plans of mice and men (the)
Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
Big Brother
Black horsemen
Blind leading the blind
Brobdingnag
Burning bush
By bread alone
Cain and Abel
Camel through a needle’s eye
Cassandra
Cast the first stone
Cast thy bread upon the waters
Cerberus
Conversion of Saul
Count of Monte Cristo (the)
Cross to bear
Crown of thorns
Crucifixion
Cyclops
Daedalus and Icarus
Damocles, sword of
Damon and Pythias
Daniel
David and Bathsheba
David and Goliath
Dickensian
Dionysus (Bacchus)
Divide the sheep from the goats
Do not go gentle into that good night
Elysian Fields
Et tu, Brute?
Eye for an eye
Face that launched a thousand ships (the)
Fiddle while Rome burns
For whom the bell tolls...
Four horseman of the apocalypse
Galahad
Garden of Gethsemane
Golden calf
Golden fleece
Golden Rule
Good fences make good neighbors
Good Samaritan
Gorgon
Grail or Holy Grail
Hades
Hatfield & McCoys
Head of John (the)
Heap coals of fire
Heart of Darkness
Herod
Hoi polloi
House has many mansions
Iphigenia
Isaac
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
Jacob and Esau
Jacob’s ladder
Jason
Jekyll/Hyde
Jephthah’s daughter
Jezebel
John the Baptist
Jonah
Joseph and his brothers
Joseph and Potiphar’s wife
Joseph in Egypt
Judas Iscariot
Judgment of Paris
Know them by their fruits
Labors of Hercules
Laius
Lamb to the slaughter
Lancelot
Last supper
Lazarus
Leaves of Grass
Leda
Legree, Simon
Let them eat cake
Lilies of the field
Lilliputian
Lion lies down with the lamb
Little learning is a dangerous thing (a)
Loaves and fishes
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Lot/Lot’s wife
Lothario
Macbeth (theater superstition)
Machiavelli (Machiavellian)
Mad dogs and Englishmen
Magi
Make a mountain out of a molehill
Mammon
Man doth not live by bread alone
Mars (Ares)
Mary (the virgin)
Mary Magdalene
Masque of the Red Death
Massacre of the innocents
McCarthyism
Mea culpa
Medea
Medusa
Mercury (Hermes)
Merlin
Methuselah
Midas
Minotaur
Mona Lisa smile
More things in heaven and earth, Horatio…
Moses
Murphy’s Law
Music hath charms that soothe the savage beast
My Lai massacre
Myrmidons
Native Son (title)
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Nemesis
Nine circles of Hell
Nirvana
No joy in Mudville
No man can serve two masters
No man is an island
Noah and the flood
Noblesse oblige
Noblest Roman of them all
Nom de plume
Not with a bang, but a whimper
Nothing new under the sun
Nouveau riche
Now is the winter of our discontent
O Captain, my captain!
O, brave new world!
Odin
Odyssey
Oedipus/Oedipus complex
On the Road (title)
One for all, and all for one
Original sin
Orpheus
Orwellian
Out, damned spot!
Pandora/Pandora’s box
Paradise Lost
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Parting of the Red Sea
Patience of Job
Pavlov’s dog
Pearls before swine
Persephone
Pharisees
Philistines
Phoenix
Physician, heal thyself
Piece de resistance
Pollock, Jackson
Pontius Pilate
Pot calling the kettle black
Pound of flesh
Procrustes (Procrustean bed)
Prodigal son
Prometheus
Proteus
Pygmalion
Pyrrhus (pyrrhic victory)
Q.E.D.
Quid pro quo
Quixotic
Rachel and Leah
Raison d’etre
Rasputin
Red herring
Render unto Caesar…
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rip van Winkle
Rob Peter to pay Paul
Roman a clef
Romulus and Remus
Ruth
Sabine women, rape of
Sacred cow
Sadism (Marquis de Sade)
Salome
Samson and Delilah
Satyrs
Savoir faire
Scarlet letter
Scheherazade
Scopes monkey trial
Scylla and Charybdis
Self-Reliance (title)
Sermon on the mount
Serpent (Biblical)
Siren’s song
Sistine Chapel
Sisyphus
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sojourner Truth
Solomon
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Sphinx
Star-crossed lovers
Stealing the apples of the Hesperides
Strange bedfellows
Straw that broke the camel’s back (the)
Sturm und Drang
Styx
Svengali
Swords into ploughshares
Taj Mahal
Taming of the Shrew
Tantalus
The lady doth protest too much
The last shall be first
The medium is the message
The meek shall inherit the earth
The Metamorphosis (title)
The Prince (title)
The Raven
The Road Not Taken (title)
The Second Coming (concept AND title)
The Tempest (title)
The Thinker (image)
The Waste Land (title)
There’s method in his madness
These are the times that try men’s souls
Thirty pieces of silver
This was the most unkindest cut of all
Thomas, doubting
Thor
Through a glass darkly
Tilting at windmills
Time’s winged chariot
Tiresias
To be or not to be
To err is human; to forgive, divine
Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow
Tower of Babel
Trail of tears
Trojan horse
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (title)
Utopia
Valhalla
Valley of the shadow of death
Veni, vidi, vici
Venus de Milo (image)
Virgil
Walden
Walter Mitty
Water, water everywhere…
Waterloo
What’s in a name?
When in Rome…
Wherefore are thou Romeo?
White man’s burden
White whale
Why hast thou forsaken me?
Willy Loman
Win one for the Gipper
Worship false idols