Cultural Literacy 3 Flashcards
800-lb gorilla
Uncomfortable topic
“Low hanging fruit”
Easy to pick at.
Achilles heel
Weakness.
Dipped in river Styx, one weakness, killed by Paras..? Right spelling?
Sisyphean
King who offended Hades, has to roll boulder up hill, but it always go down.
“Impossible task”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
A Tales of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
“April is the cruelest month”
T.S. Elliot, the Wasteland
Fish or cut bait
Move it or lose it.
On the lam
On the loose; runaway from the law
Roaring twenties
Post WW1, guilded age
Flappers
Independent minded woman of 20’s (time period or age?)
Avantgarde
Cutting edge
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Perspective vs reality
Stick in a cave, built perspective from what could see. Different from reality.
“Crossing the rubicon” Julius Caesar
Point of no return
“All animals are equal…” - animal farm
Everyone/thing is qual hit there’s manipulation of this and not equal Ada result, some think others are more equal than others
“Grace under pressure” -Ernest Hemingway
Heroic code. Handles adversity with dignity and courage
I.R.S.
Internal Revenue Service.
Tax day is April 15th
“Nothing to fear but fear itself”
Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1933 Ignagural speech
W.P.A.
Works Progess Administration (authority?)
“To kill a mocking bird”
It is a sin to kill something that is innoceant or bother something/cause trouble. Such as Arthur “boo” Radley, would have been a sin, as described by Scout, like killing a mockingbird. Causing him trouble, because he killed (so alwasy about death?) Bob Ewell, and he was doing it to protect. Bottom line, Mr. Arthur didn’t want the spot light. Just to be left in solitude.
