Allusion
Allusion in "Cupid's Arrows."
What is Greek Mythology?
The man in the red masque is a symbol of this.
What is death?
A reference to the Bible.
What is a biblical allusion?
Hayman's desire in "Sir Francis Drake."
What is to be like Drake?
The general atmosphere of "The Listeners."
What is mystery?
What allusions are based on.
What is shared knowledge?
In "A Piece of Chalk," white symbolizes this.
What is virtue?
The title "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May" illustrates this poetic device.
What is alliteration?
The fate of the revelers in "The Masque of the Red Death."
What is death?
Two details that support the atmosphere of "The Masque of the Red Death."
What are the strangeness of the house and the foreboding clock chiming?
Give one allusion from "Outta My Way, Grandpa."
What is the Rocky movies?
What is Kumbaya?
What is WWII?
What is Saving Private Ryan?
Cummings says we find this in the sea.
What is ourselves?
The two types of conflict.
What is internal and external?
Hayman uses pun to compare Drake to this creature.
What is a dragon?
In "The Progress of Poesy," Arnold compares the creative life to a search for this.
What is water?
The allusion that Hayman uses in "Sir Francis Drake" in wishing that Drake would pass on his gifts.
What is Elijah passing his gifts to Elisha?
Within the symbolic meanings of Arnold's poem, the creation of a "channel grand" suggests this.
What is a person in the middle ages of life honing and directing his/her natural talent?
The following quotation from Chesterton's essay employs THIS rhetorical device.
"But though I could not with a crayon get the best out of the landscape, it does not follow that the landscape was not getting the best out of me."
What is chiasmus?
In "Cupid's Arrows," with whom Kitty left the tournament.
Who is Cubbon?
The theme of "The Progress of Poesy."
What is that artistic inspiration dries up as someone ages?
The definition of allusion.
What is a direct or implied reference to a well known subject?
According to Chesterton in "A Piece of Chalk," this is the "infant of the sword."
What is the pocketknife?
In "A Piece of Chalk," Chesterton's use of the words "primal twilight of the first toil" shows these sound devices.
What are assonance, alliteration, and consonance?
O'Niel's thesis about competition.
What is that our motives matter?
"Afterglow" addresses how humans deal with this.
What are endings?