"We got a new Einstein in school today."

In the movie Braveheart, William Wallace goes into battle in the 1300s wearing a kilt. Kilts did not come into fashion until the 1600s.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called"

- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

“Even if they are djinns, I will get djinns that can out djinn them.”

– Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow

[…] I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it in fears,

Night and morning with my tears;

And I sunned it with smiles […]

In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Death digresses from the main story to tell a brief tale about his experiences at Stalingrad or Dachau.

“The parishioners about here,” continued Mrs. Day, not looking at any living being, but snatching up the brown delf tea-things, “are the laziest, gossipest, poachest, jailest set of any ever I came among. And they’ll talk about my teapot and tea-things next, I suppose!”

In a famous scene from the play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet delivers a soliloquy on her balcony, which begins with the following line: "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" Juliet believes she is alone and addresses Romeo, thinking that he is absent.

The Caregiver

The Explorer

The Hero

Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,

The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,

Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,

Chief nourisher in life's feast,--

The clothing is affordable

v

The clothing is cheap

The word home is defined as where you live.

Realtor: Reel-tuhr or Reel-uh-tuhr

Aunt: Ant or Ahnt

Highway or Freeway

Tennis Shoes or Sneakers

Formal - “I will address that issue right away.”

Informal - “You got it.”

In the novel Sophie's World, a fictional character, Sophie, receives letters from a philosopher. The series of letters teaches about the history of philosophy. The reader learns along with Sophie, absorbing the story along with the lessons about philosophy.

Walt Whitman's poem entitled, "O Captain! My Captain!" which was written in memory of Abraham Lincoln describes his emotions when Lincoln was murdered, and he paints an emotionally evoking picture of the dead Captain lying still.

Virgil's The Aeneid is a poem about the events leading to the founding of Rome. It comes from the Greek story of the Trojan War and is about a member of the royal line of Troy who wanders the Mediterranean.

“With great power comes great responsibility.”

Sky Candle = Sun

Bookworm = voracious reader