The Most Dangerous Game: Allusions

“In his library he read, to soothe himself, from the works of MARCUS AURELIUS.”

• Literary

• Religious

• Historical

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“He HUMMED a snatch(small bit) of a SONG from the Folies Bergere”

• Literary

• Historical

• Religious

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

“GOD makes some men poets. Some HE makes kings, some beggars. Me HE made a hunter.”

• Literary

• Historical

• Religious

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Well, doubtless you had PURITAN (English PROTESTANT) ancestors. So many Americans appear to have had.”

• Literary

• Historical

• Religous

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“He doubled on his trail again, recalling all the LORE of the fox hunt… ‘I have played the FOX, now I must play the CAT of the FABLE’”

• Literary

• Historical

• Religious

• Classical (mythology)

• Modern (pop-culture)

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

“Sometimes an ANGRY GOD OF THE HIGH SEAS sends them to me”

• Literary

• Historical

• Religious

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

“He was dressed faultlessly in the tweeds (plaid suit) of a country squire (gentleman)”

• Literary

• Historical

• Religious

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

“I went into the army-it was expected of noblemen’s sons-and for a time commanded a division of Cossack cavalry”

• Literary

• Historical

• Religious

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Ivan once had the honor of serving as official knouter to the Great White Czar, and he has his own ideas of sport.

• Literary

• Historical

• Religious

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Hunting? GREAT GUNS, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder."

• Literary

• Historical

• Religious

• Modern (pop-culture)

• Classical (mythology)

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3