C. L. 8 Flashcards
An endearing, fat, aging rouge who appears in several Shakespeare plays, especially Henry the Fourth and Henry the Fifth
Falstaff
The national poet of Britain
Poet laureate
Caution is preferable to rash bravery
Discretion is the better part of valor
A word or expression that has two different meanings, one of which is often bawdy or indelicate
Double-entendre
An unexpected winner.
Dark horse
A person who is no longer favored or welcome
Latin meaning “an unacceptable person”
Persona non grata
In music, a Mass for one or more dead person’s. It contains biblical passages and prayers for administration of the dead to heaven.
Requiem
The beginning and the end
Alpha and omega
American songwriter and folksinger of the twentieth century
Woody Guthrie
A stone discovered in Egypt in the late 18th century inscribed with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and a translation of them in Greek
Rosetta Stone
The title character in “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” a story from the famous collection of Persian, Indian, and Arabian folk tales, the Arabian Nights
Ali Baba
The food of the gods in classic mythology
Those who ate it became immortal
Ambrosia
A twentieth-century Chilean poet, widely considered the greatest of the more recent Latin American poets.
Pablo Neruda
