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Bargain For The Rest of Us"-From "Crude World" by Michael Hirsh, USA Today
Bargain For The Rest of Us"-From "Crude World" by Michael Hirsh, USA Today
Carly Heiner
Snyder
English II Pre-AP 3B
17 October 2009
Allusion Assignment
Example: “One oil supplier has been good for the Saudi princes but a Faustian
bargain for the rest of us”—from “Crude World” by Michael Hirsh, USA Today.
Meaning: It’s easy for the Saudi princes to access oil, but for the rest of the
Example: “There’s no Freudian slip like a John Galliano dress”—from “The Moment
Meaning: John Galliano dresses are an error in fashion choice, hopefully a choice
Example: “Don't you know that I hope you find your holy grail, suffered in silence
Meaning: Hopes they find what they’ve been looking for after they’re struggle to get
to it.
Allusion: Lamb
Example: “’And so the lion fell in love with the lamb’…’What a stupid lamb’…’What a
sick masochistic lion’”—from Chapter 13, page 274 in Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.
Meaning: The innocent girl fell in love with the dangerous boy.
morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men. I
shall die innocent, and it shall yet be said of me—he was murdered in cold blood”—
Joseph Smith speaking in Doctrine and Covenants 135:4 in the Book of Mormon.
Meaning: Smith says this to show that he understands his innocence, but knows he
Example: “She was a lamb to the slaughter as a bride, clueless about the man she
Meaning: The ignorant bride to who her groom really is will be her downfall,
considering she is spending the rest of her life with this man.
Allusion: Luddite
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Example: “He was a charming, self-proclaimed luddite who wrote with paper and a
Allusion: Methuselah
Example: “To use our Methuselah-like furnaces until they wear out and die keeps
Meaning: These extremely old and outdated furnaces are wasting gas when you can
Allusion: Methuselah
21, 2009.
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Example: “With its first regular-season NHL coverage since 1975, NBC is the latest
to try to solve the sports world’s Riddle of the Sphinx: How can hockey draw
national TV ratings significantly higher than what you would get with a blank
screen?”—from the article “NBC set to take shot at NHL” by Michael Hiestand, USA
Today.
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