WorksheetsALLUSION QUIZIZZ
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 9mins
Identify the story that is alluded to below,
O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,
A brother's murder. (Hamlet, 3.3.42-44)
Prometheus
Julius Caesar
Adam & Eve
Cain and Abel
Identify the story that is alluded to below,
Abigail brings the other girls into court, and where she walks the crowd parts like the sea for Israel. (The Crucible)
Orpheus
Moses
Demeter
Casanova
Identify the story that is alluded to below,
“I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee.” (Othello)
Judas
Paradise Lost
Perseus
Julius Caesar
Identify the story that is alluded to below,
"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell./ though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,/ yet grace must still look so." (Macbeth)
Paradise Lost
Adam & Eve
Moses
Cain & Abel
Identify the story that is alluded to below,
His best friend now considered him Brutus due to his recent betrayal.
Casanova
The Legend of El Dorado
Paradise Lost
Julius Caesar
Identify the story that is alluded to below,
There's no promise of safety with these secondhand wings
But I'm willing to find out what impossible means.
A leap of faith.
Parody of an angel
Miles above the sea
I hear the voice of reason
Screaming up to me
"You flew too high, for now your too close to the sun
Soon your makeshift wings will come undone"
Demeter
Daedalus
Pandora
Judas
Identify the story that is alluded to below,
Don't look back all you'll ever get
Is the dust from the steps before
I don't have to see you every day,
But I just want to know you're there
(She & Him)
Paradise Lost
Attila the Hun
Orpheus
Pandora
Identify the story that is alluded to below,
But give them me, the mouth, the eyes, the brow! Let them once more absorb me! One look now Will lap me round for ever, not to pass Out of its light, though darkness lies beyond: Hold me but safe again within the bond Of one immortal look! All woe that was, Forgotten, and all terror that may be, Defied—no past is mine, no future: look at me!
(Robert Browning, Poem)
Kronos and Zeus
Prometheus
Moses
Orpheus
Identify the story that is alluded to below,
No one has touched me for weeks
yet in this drugged, gilt afternoon, late,
when nothing is safe, I’m paralyzed,
as though so wildly desired - passing solo through the garden’s
cinnamon, marigolds, famished roses, where a matted shingle
of the swept-up human hair I begged from a local beauty shop
& spread out fruitlessly among the blooms & canes
to keep away the deer might well be a satyr
passed out in the place’s candied gold -
that something regnant with a strange, godlike power
Midas
Pandora
Kronos and Zeus
Prometheus
Identify the story that is alluded to below,
Although religious authorities and moralists objected to the new procedure, the Promethean scientists would not be denied.
Pandora
Prometheus
Perseus
Midas
