AP English Allusions

Allusions
For this assignment, you'll be creating a dictionary for ten terms from the assigned group. Yes, alphabetical order! Study these examples and non­examples.

Biblical Allusions Group 1
Creation
Adam and Eve
Cain and Abel
David and Goliath
Moses (birth to the promised land)
Abraham and Isaac
Tower of Babel
Jonah and the Whale
Samson and Delilah
Solomon
Job
Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors
Armageddon

Greek and Roman Mythology Group 1
Prometheus
Narcissus
The Golden Fleece
Orpheus and Eurydice
Daedalus and Icarus
Cupid and Psyche
Pygmalion and Galatea
Daphne and Apollo
Sisyphus
Tantalus
Hercules
Medea
Hades and Persephone

Biblical Allusions Group 2
Daniel in the Lion's Den
Elijah
Jezebel
Sodom and Gomorrah
Birth of Jesus
Parable of the Prodigal Son
Lazarus
John the Baptist
Last Supper
Judas
Crucifixion and Resurrection
Doubting Thomas
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Greek and Roman Mythology Group 2
Medusa
Oedipus (the Sphinx, Antigone)
Antigone
The Trojan War (the fall of Troy,
Achilles, Hector, Paris, Helen, and the Trojan
Horse)
Midas
Bacchus
Agamemnon, Orestes, and Electra (also known in whole as The Oresteia)
Leda and the Swan
Pandora
Odysseus/Ulysses

King Arthur Legends
Uther and Igraine and the story of Arthur's birth
Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot (their stories and the love triangle)
Sir Gawain and "Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight" (story in verse)
Merlin
Morgan le Fay
Nimue alias Vivienne, Lady of the Lake
Perceval
Mordred
Galahad
Places: Avalon and Camelot
Objects: Excalibur, the Sword in the Stone, the
Holy Grail

Fairy Tales
The Ugly Duckling
Snow White
Sleeping Beauty
Beauty and the Beast
Rumpelstiltskin
The Princess and the Pea
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Little Red Riding Hood
Hansel and Gretel
The Frog Prince
The Fisherman and His Wife
Cinderella
Bluebeard
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Aladdin

Examples and Non-Examples
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