Unit 3 Allusion and Symbol

Question 1

How is allusion in the title “Cupid’s Arrows” relevant to the story?

Answer 1

Cupid is the god of love and he spreads that love with arrows.

Question 2

True/False A theme of “Cupid’s Arrows” is looks vs influence as the prerequisite to marriage.

Answer 2

False - Money vs Love

Question 3

True/False In “Cupid’s Arrows,” the arrow is a symbol of wealth and prestige.

Answer 3

False - the bracelet is

Question 4

What kind of rhyme is this line from “Sir Francis Drake?”
He asked me whose I was. I answered him.
He asked me if his good friend were within.

Answer 4

Slant Rhyme

Question 5

True/False “Sir Francis Drake” uses metaphor to compare the naval hero to a dragon.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What kind of tone does O’Neill reveal in “Outta My Way, Grandpa!”

Answer 6

Humorous tone

Question 7

The theme in “Outta My Way, Grandpa!” is that motivation matters and wins races.

Answer 7

True - even when that race is disorganized and hectic.

Question 8

In “The Progress of Poesy,” explain how the bones in the phrase, “And down he lays his weary bones” are an example of synecdoche.

Answer 8

The bones represent the man’s body. This is synecdoche because the part represents the whole

Question 9

In “The Progress of Poesy,” Arnold reveals a pessimistic worldview?

Answer 9

True

Question 10

In “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May,” what is the stone symbolic of?

Answer 10

The world

Question 11

What is the tone/atmosphere of “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May?”

Answer 11

Cheerful

Question 12

What is the atmosphere of Borges’s “Afterglow?”

Answer 12

Somewhat disturbing, and seems like a contradicting atmosphere.

Question 13

What is the major symbol of “Afterglow?”

Answer 13

The sunset

Question 14

Give 3 symbols from “The Masque of the Red Death” and what do each mean?

Answer 14

1. Clock - time that can’t be stopped
2. The dark room - people don’t talk about death because they are afraid of it
3. The apartments - people and how they are different, but death gets everyone regardless.

Question 15

What are 2 allusions that Poe makes in “The Masque of the Red Death?”

Answer 15

“Thief in the Night” - Jesus’ 2nd coming
“Out Heroded Herod” - King Herod at the time of Jesus who threw big parties

Question 16

What is the primary conflict of “The Masque of the Red Death?”

Answer 16

Man versus greater force

Question 17

True/False Poe’s worldview in “The Masque of the Red Death” is revealed that death is frightening and inevitable.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

What is the atmosphere of “The Listeners?”

Answer 18

Suspenseful and mysterious

Question 19

In Chesterton’s “A Piece of Chalk,” what is the color white a symbol of?

Answer 19

Virtue, mercy, chastity, and good people

Question 20

In “A Piece of Chalk,” what are the conflicts?

Answer 20

Conflicts are: the boys ad the old woman conflicting about the paper, the boys and himself as what to draw, and the boy and his leaving the white chalk.

Question 21

True/False In “A Piece of Chalk,” the phrase “the first fierce stars that sprang out of divine darkness contains an allusion.

Answer 21

True