Name ___________________________ Hr. ____ Wally or Ole?
AP Lit. ALLUSIONS
# & Allusion
date
1.
Achilles’
Heel
2.
Pound of
Flesh
3.
Sacred
Cow
4.
Crossing
the
Rubicon
5.
Pearls
before
Swine
6.
Once in a
Blue
Moon
7.
Mrs.
Grundy/
Grundyism
8.
Crocodile
Tears
9.
Sirens /
Siren song
10. Read the
Riot Act
11. Thirty
Pieces of
Silver /
Betrayed
with a Kiss
12. Gordian
Knot
13. Ivory
Tower
14. All the
Glitters is
not Gold
15. Sound and
Fury
16. Icarus /
Fly too
Close to
the Sun
17. Bread and
Circuses
18. Deus ex
Machina
What it means / how it is used /
example?
background / story behind it
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
Tabula
Rasa
Tantalus