Literary Allusions #1-28

a self-satisfied person concerned chiefly with business and material success - from a character in an Sinclair Lewis novel.

• Babbit
• Don Juan
• Walter Mitty
• Pooh-bah

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

gigantic, enormous, on a large scale - from a novel by Jonathan Swift

• Brobdingnagian
• Pickwickian
• Panglossian
• Lilliputian

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3

CCSS.RF.1.4

CCSS.RF.2.3D

CCSS.RF.K.3

CCSS.RF.K.4

to speak or behave clumsily or falteringly; a clumsy religious figure in a work of literature

• Bumble
• Cinderella
• Robot
• Galahad

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

one who gains affluence or recognition after obscurity and neglect - after a fairy tale heroine

• Cinderella
• Friday
• Little Lord Fauntleroy
• Pollyanna

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

a libertine, a man obsessed with seducing women - after a legendary 14th century Spanish nobleman

• Don Juan
• Don Quixote
• Galahad
• Tartuffe

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

someone overly idealistic to the point of having impossible dreams - from the crazed and impoverished Spanish noble in a story by Cervantes

• Don Quixote
• Frankenstein
• Lothario
• Milquetoast

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

blindly or misleadingly optimistic - after an old tutor in Candide by Voltaire

• Panglossian
• Falstaffian
• Quixotic
• Pickwickian

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

full of wit and bawdy humor - from a fat, sensual, and boastful knight who appears in three of Shakespeare's plays

• Falstaffian
• Svengali
• Panglossian
• Malapropism

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

anything that threatens or destroys its creator - from a character in a novel by Mary Shelley

• Frankenstein
• Pooh-bah
• Jekyll and Hyde
• Simon Legree

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

a faithful and willing attendant - from a character in the novel Robinson Crusoe

• Friday
• Scrooge
• Uriah Heep
• Uncle Tom

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3