Mr.
Morrison
AP Lit and Comp
Name: ___________________________
Allusions Packet
Below is a list of allusions (biblical and mythological) that you will have to locate and summarize. Each biblical
allusion has it location in the bible after it. You can use a bible to look these up at [Link]. Please fill out the
chart below. The first one is completed for you as an example.
Allusion Summary Interpretation
“Be fruitful and multiply” Genesis God’s command to Adam and Eve to Encouragement of fertility and
1:22-23 reproduce and fill the Earth with sexual relations between couples
their offspring.
“Tree of knowledge” Genesis 2:9,
16-17
“Adam’s rib” Genesis 2:18
“Seven days of creation” Genesis 2:3
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust”
Genesis 3:17-19
“Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Genesis 4:9-10
“Mark of Cain” Genesis 4:15-16
“Methuselah” Genesis 5:25-27
“Noah’s Ark” Genesis 6:13-16
“Forty days and forty nights”
Genesis 7:4
“Babel” Genesis 11:8-9
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“Sodom and Gomorrah” Genesis
18:20-21
“Midianites” Genesis 37:36
“Burning Bush” Exodus 3:1-2
“Harden your heart” Exodus 4:21
“Let my people go” Exodus 5:1
“Parting of the waters” Exodus
14:15-17
“Manna from Heaven” Exodus
16:14-15
“Ark of the Covenant” Exodus
16:33-34
“Eye for and eye, tooth for a tooth”
Exodus 21:23-25
“Golden calf” Exodus 32:4
“David and Goliath” 1 Samuel 17:4,
8-9
“Lamb to slaughter” Isaiah 53:6-7
“Daniel and the lion’s den” Daniel
6:4-27
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“Seven Pillars of wisdom” Proverbs
9:1
“Way of the flesh” Joshua 23:14
“Chariot of fire” Kings 2:11
“Wisdom of Solomon” 1 Kings
3:16-28
“Gold, frankincense and myrrh”
Matthew 2:1-2
“”Three temptations of Christ”
Matthew 4:1-3
“Consider the lilies of the field”
Matthew 6:28
“Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof” Matthew 6:34
“Golden Rule” Matthew 7:12-15
“By their fruits shall ye know them”
Matthew 7:16
“Loaves and fishes” Matthew
14:15-18
“Gain the whole world but lose your
own soul” Matthew 16:26
“Camel through the eye of the
needle” Matthew 19:23-25
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“Out of the mouths of babes”
Matthew 21:16
“Thirty pieces of silver” Matthew
26:14-15
“Who lives by the sword die by the
sword” Matthew 26:49-54
“Crown of thorns” Matthew
27:27-29
“Words made flesh” John 1:14
“Voice crying in the wilderness”
John 1:23
“Water into Wine” John 2:7-10
“Cast the first stone” John 8:4-7
“Doubting Thomas” John 20:24-25
“Turn the other cheek” Luke 6:29
“Good Samaritan” Luke 10:30-34
“Prodigal Son” Luke 15:11-14
“Alpha and Omega” Revelations
1:7-8
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“Four horsemen of the Apocalypse”
Revelations 1:16
“Breaking bread” Acts 2:42-47
“Jonah and the whale” Jonah 2:1-10
“Samson and Delilah” Judges 16:13
“This is my body” Luke 22:19
“Valley of the shadow of death”
Psalm 23:4
Prometheus
Icarus and Daedalus
Sisyphus
Persephone and the pomegranate
Atlas
Jason and Medea
Acheilles’ heel
Leda and the Swan
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Pygmalion
Bacchanalian
Herculean
Nemesis
Narcissism
Pandora’s Box
Midas Touch
“By Jove”
Medusa
Phoenix
Dionysus
Oedipal Complex
Electra Complex
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Siren Song
Trojan Horse
Orpheus
Tantalus
Argus-Eyed
Adonis
Paris and Helen of Troy
River Styx
Elysian Fields
“between a rock and a hard place”
Chimerical
Ambrosia
Kronos
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Satyr
Nymphs
Ajax
Phoebus Apollo
Oracle at Delphi
