Under COMMENTS, post your literary allusion so that they're all in the same place.
Thanks Brianna for starting the post! :)
Due tonight by midnight!
Tartuffe:
Origin-written by Molière; a famous theatrical comedy
Definition-an ostentatious hypocrite
Simon Legree:
ReplyDeleteOrigin-Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Definition-a brutal taskmaster
Jekyll and Hyde:
ReplyDeleteOrigin-novella by Robert Louis Stevenson-"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
Def.-split personality between civil human and savage monster
Don Juan:
ReplyDeleteOrigin: Tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (The Seducer of Seville) by Tirso de Molina
DEFINITION: A womanizer, seducer, a person who is (or thinks he is) irresistible to women
Brobdingnagian
ReplyDeleteOrigin: Brobdingnag, imaginary land of giants in Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
Definition: tremendous size; large
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zix2eRjPFLk
DeleteJust watched it! FUNNY!!
DeleteLilliputian:
ReplyDeleteOrigin: Gulliver's Travels, Jonathon Swift. Gulliver was shipwrecked off the coast of an island named Lilliput filled with small people.
Definition: A trivial or very small person or thing.
Uriah Heep
ReplyDeleteOrigin: A fictional character from the novel, "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
Meaning: A person who pretends to show great respect but is not sincere
Svengali
ReplyDeleteOrigin: by George Du Maurier in the Novel Trilby
Definition: A person who, with evil intent, tries to persuade another to do what is desired
Uncle Tom:
ReplyDeleteOrigin: Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Definition: A black person who has "sold out" to whites.
Lothario
ReplyDeleteOrigin: The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe
-after the young seducer
Definition: A man who obsessively seduces and deceives women.
Pollyanna:
ReplyDelete"Pollyanna" by Eleanor Porter; Pollyanna was the child heroine in the novel
-an optimistic person
Pickwickian:
ReplyDeleteOrigin-The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens.
Definition-Simple and kind; Meant or understood in an idiosyncratic or unusual way.
Walter Mitty:
ReplyDeleteOrigin: James Thurber- "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Definition: a commonplace unadventurous person who seeks escape from reality through daydreaming
Scrooge:
ReplyDeleteOrigin-Main character in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"
Definition- a person who is miserly
Babbitt:
ReplyDeleteOrigin-Main character in "Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis
Definition-a self-satisfied person that is mainly concerned with material success
Quixotic -
ReplyDeleteOrigin: don Quixote is the hero of a novel written by the Spanish author Cervantes
Definition: Exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical
The novel is "Don Quixote de la Mancha"
DeletePooh-Bah
ReplyDeleteA pompous, ostentatious official, especially one who, holding many offices, fulfills none of them.
Named after Pooh-Bah, Lord-High-Everything-Else, a character in The Mikado bu W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.
....I hope you're not referring to me as a Pooh-Bah...
Never!
DeleteGuy Friday
ReplyDeleteOrigin: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
-Friday was a servant in Robinson Crusoe.
Definition: Efficient aid or right-hand man.
Its a little late... but
ReplyDeleteScrooge
Origin:Charles Dickens, A Chirstmas Carol
Definition: A miserly person; kill joy
Galahad:
ReplyDeleteOrigin: Sir Galahad from the Welsh myth of King Arthur
Meaning: pure, noble, selfless