Allusions II
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- Paean
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song of joyful praise or exaltation
Apollo = Paean in Greek - Argys eyed
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someone with keen vision/insight
Argus, 100-eyed monster - Parnassus
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Greek home of Muses
center of artistic activity or learning - Chimera
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someone with multi-facteted personality
creature with parts of many animals - Mercurial
- changeable in temperament/mood; volatile
- Nemesis
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arch-rival who prevents you from getting what you want
goddess who punishes crime and represents excessive good fortune and arrogant pride - Panglossian
- overly optimistic in spite of misfortunes
- Falstaffian
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Shakespearean character Falstaff
characterized by joviality; usually a little heavy, comical - Lothario
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The Fair Penetant by Nicholas Rowe (play)
man who seduces and deceives women - Simon Legree
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Uncle Tom's Cabin - brutal slave driver
harsh, merciless master/authority; cruel employer - Svengali
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character from George Maurier's Trilby
authority who persuades with evil intent - Yahoo
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Jonathon Swift's Gulliver's Travels
someone boorish, crass, or absurd - Pearl of Great Price
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compared to Kingdom of Heaven by Jesus
something so precious you'd give up everything for/devote everything to it - Philistine
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group opposed to Samson, Saul, David, Israelites
someone indifferent to cultural values - Sodom and Gomorrah
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wicked cities destroyed by fire
place associated eith wickedness/sin - Solomon
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King Solomon
a wise man - Machiavellian
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Machiavelli, 15th century totalitarian genius - very calculating in how to achieve goals
someone calculating and almost underhanded/plotting in trying to achieve something; shrewd, two-faced - Sardonic
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Greek plant from Sardinia that caused facial convulsions and death
scornful, mocking, disdainfully humorous - Thespian
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Thespus, known as inventor of tragedy
someone/something relating to drama - Uriah Heep
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character from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
fawning toadie (suck up)