Please post an example of allusion from your poetry novel. Include the page number and a brief explanation
of what the allusion is referencing and what it means.
ALLUSION "The Weight of Water" "But Mama is wrong./Some of them have never even heard of Austen" (Crossan 12). This references to the author Jane Austen, who is famous for multiple, romantic novels.
Kaleidoscope Eyes. ¨Maybe Gramps was planning a last solo trip in his little sailboat down our own lazy river, just like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn did with their raft on the Mississippi¨ (Bryant 40). This refers to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It means the the grandpa may have intended to travel by boat.
"But with Rem, I want to be sixteen, or like Alice and Wonderland, Sometimes smaller, Sometimes bigger still." (Kehoe 75) The author is referencing Alice and Wonderland which is a book. What this means is Sara wants to be bigger at some times and smaller at others times, she wish she could choose when to be big and when to be small, like in Alice in Wonderland when Alice drinks and eats the things she becomes bigger and other times smaller if she wanted to change her size she could simply take another bite or sip.
Allusion- "I will be so nurturing the lost boys will miss their mothers" (Roth 22). The allusion is referencing Peter Pan. It means that Sara will be very nurturing to the young kids in the play with her.
“Let’s just say she wasted away into a toothpick, and leave it at that okay” (Sones, 6) This allusion is referencing to the thin and weakness of a toothpick like her sick mother was while battling her sickness. Ruby’s mother was weak and there was nothing they could do.
"Michael, row the boat ashore, hallelujah.... The River Jordan is deep and wide, milk and honey on the other side" (Frost 31). This quote is from a song called Michael. Wren is using this song to help her get through the extremely stressful situation of being held in a garage. Her family used to sing that song together, and it eases the stress.
The allusion I found in The Day Before was “He drives a classic, pale yellow VW beetle...’Did you see that movie?’” (Schroeder 71). The speaker (Amber) is referring to the movie Footloose, in which one of the characters drives a yellow VW beetle.
Ruby has just awoken to find that her dream journal was still completely empty. She thinks “I felt totally Twilight Zoned. Then I remember what happened. I’d only dreamt that I’d remembered my dream” (Sones 160). Ruby feels like strange things are happening to her, just like people on the TV show The Twilight Zone.
“Basketball is a Boston ballet, with its own intricate steps and patterns” (Glenn 46).
This allusion is referencing the Boston Ballet which is a famous professional ballet company based in Boston. This allusion is saying that both basketball and ballet have special skills that the participating athletes must master.
"With her roots and spells where are the black candles that spell death to my enemies" (Myers 26) This is referring to a witch and spells on to people. Junice's mom is in jail and in her mind she is asking where her mom is (Junice's mom is asking that) to "take all the people" in that prison away (her enemies) because they are being rude and kinda violent towards her.
“Blake followed too, a small boat puttering along a sea of linoleum, his throttle jammed, stuck on low” (page 76). The allusion means he was following very slowly, like a boat puttering along.
"...to express the lord's anger that one of his special children had fallen"(Hesse,68). This is an allusion because it talks about the lord losing one of his children so I connect that with him losing Jesus when he was crucified.
"Ghosts are only in movies...moaning or carrying chains around." pg. 64. This relates to the Christmas Story because Scrooges friend is a ghost and carries his chains around.
“...Mrs. Hoffmeyer has hired an English girl to work the counter, while she stays in the back…
Mother says that Mrs. Hoffmeyer is afraid now. She says Germans aren’t popular because of Bruno Richard Hauptmann and Hitler, the German Chancellor who hates Jews…” (Bryant 96)
In this part of the book the author is alluding to World War Two. She is using this to help you know the time period that she is writing in and to let you know what’s going on in the rest of the world.
The allusion I found was, "It always be her fault, but God forgives her anyway. By Jesus coming down to die on the cross"(Wolff 392). This allusion refers to the bible and the story of Jesus dying on the cross for our sins.
Allusion Raven on Toast Her jeans were low, her top was cropped, showing what her tummy bore- Norman Pratt: forevermore. On page 128 the author is referencing the poem the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. In the Raven you say nevermore and here they are saying forevermore. So they at are talking about a long time and saying that whatever the situation is will go on for a long time.
The mother daughter waltz is an example of an allusion is that if you didnt know it was a dance you wouldnt understand that the athur means they are going back and forth and round and round through there relationship. -Jessi Davis
"If stories were true, I'd follow a bread-crumb path all the way home" (Rose 90). This allusion is referencing "Hansel and Gretal". What this allusion means is that May has no way of returning home and if it had been a perfect world she would have left a way to find her way home.
"I'd tell her I wanted to live in a castle with a moat and a dungeon and marry a prince with a white horse" Brown 18. She's referring to most classic fairy tales. This means she wants have a husband and live in a large home.
"A Sister Saint Somebody,"(Wolff 15). The allusion is alluding to the sisters of St. Joseph a Catholic group who taught women how to support themselves.
"Humming birds the size of bee's in a forest the size of Eden" (Engle 32). This refers to how small the humming birds are compaired to the vast forest.
On page 22 it says "Circus's goin' to hell, you ask me. Give me the old days. We had real freaks then." It is alluding to the bible by saying the circus is going to hell. It means that the circus is getting really bad and somewhere you don't want to go.
"And a second later, I'm racing down the stasirs, my feet in a Road-Runnery blur, when this real bizzare feeling comes over me--- like I'm the male equivalent of Cinderella." (Sones 110)
"I wondered if anyone here ever sprayed Agent Orange on any of the plants I touched, any of the places I walked, any of the people I loved"(Burg 125). Agent Orange is a chemical that destroyed forests and plants and poisened soldiers. Matt refers to Agent Orange as what had been the thing that destroyed everything in his past.
"I want to say I hear music. I hear Bach when feeding the chickens" (Ostlere 67). This allusion is referring to Mayas moms music that's coming out from the windows while Maya is performing her chores. Maya is saying that her moms playing level is Bach's level and is wonderful.
Allusions: “I never believed in the afterlife before. And to be honest, I always thought mine would come in shades of red and heat” (Mass 11) Tessa is referencing to Hell and she’s saying that she thought she was going to end up in Hell not Heaven.
"Woe to humanity, Woe the German people if God's Holy Commandment 'Thou shall not kill,' is not only transgressed but if the transgression is both tolerated and carried out without punishment" (LeZotte 62). This is referencing one of God's holy commandment that says not to kill. The book states this to tell the Nazis to stop killing innocent people even with their disabilities.
Allusion: “You know the part in Cinderella when everyone goes to the ball and she sits at home, crying? It wasn’t because her gown was ripped. It was because she knew she was an idiot for thinking she could grab a prince. I know how she feels”. (Bingham 242) Jane was saying that she was stupid for thinking that Max (the hottest guy at school) would ever like her.
When he turns the key, the radio goes on with the motor. Right away, the Bees Gees start singing, got the wings of heaven on my shoes. I wish I did. I'd fly far away from Billy and Davey and Rob (Burg 50). This is an allusion because it is referincing to a song that the Bees Gees sang that had to do with having the wings of heaven. Matt relates to this song because he is frustrated and wants to "fly away" from everyone.
"It would have been like throwing up on the Mona Lisa, in Marylin's opinion, because her fairy princess costume had turned out to be a work of art" (Dowell 126). The allusion is referencing the famous painting in Du Louvre. The author was saying that to Marylin, her costume was very special to her and that if anything happened to it she would be devastated.
"They're about people who are successful in sports even though each of them has vision in only one eye. There's a professional hockey player, a college baseball pitcher, and lots of others" (Fehler 86). This is referencing Jordan Underwood, a Southwest Missouri pitcher who lost his eye with a line drive to the face. And yet he continued to play.
"So I'll read them Lucille Clifton's 'Hips' or Hayden Carruth's ' Cows at Night.." (Kearney 91) the author has the main character talk about reading her favorite poems to her friends.
allusion: “I put it down, feeling it with my fingertips, trying to read it like someone who’s blind” (Bryant 115) she is explaining that the words are so unreadable she is havng to try and fell the letters as if she were blind *I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for but I just took a guess*
ALLUSION
ReplyDelete"The Weight of Water"
"But Mama is wrong./Some of them have never even heard of Austen" (Crossan 12). This references to the author Jane Austen, who is famous for multiple, romantic novels.
Kaleidoscope Eyes. ¨Maybe Gramps was planning a last solo trip in his little sailboat down our own lazy river, just like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn did with their raft on the Mississippi¨ (Bryant 40). This refers to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It means the the grandpa may have intended to travel by boat.
ReplyDelete"But with Rem, I want to be sixteen, or like Alice and Wonderland, Sometimes smaller, Sometimes bigger still." (Kehoe 75) The author is referencing Alice and Wonderland which is a book. What this means is Sara wants to be bigger at some times and smaller at others times, she wish she could choose when to be big and when to be small, like in Alice in Wonderland when Alice drinks and eats the things she becomes bigger and other times smaller if she wanted to change her size she could simply take another bite or sip.
ReplyDeleteAllusion- "I will be so nurturing the lost boys will miss their mothers" (Roth 22). The allusion is referencing Peter Pan. It means that Sara will be very nurturing to the young kids in the play with her.
ReplyDelete“Let’s just say she wasted away into a toothpick, and leave it at that okay” (Sones, 6) This allusion is referencing to the thin and weakness of a toothpick like her sick mother was while battling her sickness. Ruby’s mother was weak and there was nothing they could do.
ReplyDelete"Michael, row the boat ashore, hallelujah.... The River Jordan is deep and wide, milk and honey on the other side" (Frost 31). This quote is from a song called Michael. Wren is using this song to help her get through the extremely stressful situation of being held in a garage. Her family used to sing that song together, and it eases the stress.
ReplyDeleteThe allusion I found in The Day Before was “He drives a classic, pale yellow VW beetle...’Did you see that movie?’” (Schroeder 71). The speaker (Amber) is referring to the movie Footloose, in which one of the characters drives a yellow VW beetle.
ReplyDeleteRuby has just awoken to find that her dream journal was still completely empty. She thinks “I felt totally Twilight Zoned. Then I remember what happened. I’d only dreamt that I’d remembered my dream” (Sones 160). Ruby feels like strange things are happening to her, just like people on the TV show The Twilight Zone.
ReplyDelete“must have misplaced it, Lannie says (he stomps the floor)
ReplyDeletehis Jolene Durham CD-” (Darrow 25). Lannie is referencing the famous singer Jolene Durham.
ReplyDelete“Basketball is a Boston ballet, with its own intricate steps and patterns” (Glenn 46).
This allusion is referencing the Boston Ballet which is a famous professional ballet company based in Boston. This allusion is saying that both basketball and ballet have special skills that the participating athletes must master.
"With her roots and spells where are the black candles that spell death to my enemies" (Myers 26) This is referring to a witch and spells on to people. Junice's mom is in jail and in her mind she is asking where her mom is (Junice's mom is asking that) to "take all the people" in that prison away (her enemies) because they are being rude and kinda violent towards her.
ReplyDelete“Blake followed too, a small boat puttering along a sea of linoleum, his throttle jammed, stuck on low” (page 76). The allusion means he was following very slowly, like a boat puttering along.
ReplyDelete"...to express the lord's anger that one of his special children had fallen"(Hesse,68). This is an allusion because it talks about the lord losing one of his children so I connect that with him losing Jesus when he was crucified.
ReplyDelete"Ghosts are only in movies...moaning or carrying chains around." pg. 64. This relates to the Christmas Story because Scrooges friend is a ghost and carries his chains around.
ReplyDelete“...Mrs. Hoffmeyer has hired an English girl
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in the back…
Mother says that Mrs. Hoffmeyer is afraid now.
She says Germans aren’t popular because of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
and Hitler, the German Chancellor
who hates Jews…” (Bryant 96)
In this part of the book the author is alluding to World War Two. She is using this to help you know the time period that she is writing in and to let you know what’s going on in the rest of the world.
The allusion I found was, "It always be her fault, but God forgives her anyway. By Jesus coming down to die on the cross"(Wolff 392). This allusion refers to the bible and the story of Jesus dying on the cross for our sins.
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ReplyDeleteRaven on Toast
Her jeans were low, her top was cropped, showing what her tummy bore- Norman Pratt: forevermore. On page 128 the author is referencing the poem the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. In the Raven you say nevermore and here they are saying forevermore. So they at are talking about a long time and saying that whatever the situation is will go on for a long time.
The mother daughter waltz is an example of an allusion is that if you didnt know it was a dance you wouldnt understand that the athur means they are going back and forth and round and round through there relationship. -Jessi Davis
ReplyDelete"If stories were true, I'd follow a bread-crumb path all the way home" (Rose 90). This allusion is referencing "Hansel and Gretal". What this allusion means is that May has no way of returning home and if it had been a perfect world she would have left a way to find her way home.
ReplyDelete"I'd tell her I wanted to live in a castle with a moat and a dungeon and marry a prince with a white horse" Brown 18. She's referring to most classic fairy tales. This means she wants have a husband and live in a large home.
ReplyDelete"A Sister Saint Somebody,"(Wolff 15). The allusion is alluding to the sisters of St. Joseph a Catholic group who taught women how to support themselves.
ReplyDelete"Humming birds the size of bee's in a forest the size of Eden" (Engle 32). This refers to how small the humming birds are compaired to the vast forest.
ReplyDeleteOn page 22 it says "Circus's goin' to hell, you ask me. Give me the old days. We had real freaks then." It is alluding to the bible by saying the circus is going to hell. It means that the circus is getting really bad and somewhere you don't want to go.
ReplyDelete"And a second later, I'm racing down the stasirs, my feet in a Road-Runnery blur, when this real bizzare feeling comes over me--- like I'm the male equivalent of Cinderella." (Sones 110)
ReplyDelete"I wondered if anyone here ever sprayed Agent Orange on any of the plants I touched, any of the places I walked, any of the people I loved"(Burg 125). Agent Orange is a chemical that destroyed forests and plants and poisened soldiers. Matt refers to Agent Orange as what had been the thing that destroyed everything in his past.
ReplyDelete"I want to say I hear music. I hear Bach when feeding the chickens" (Ostlere 67). This allusion is referring to Mayas moms music that's coming out from the windows while Maya is performing her chores. Maya is saying that her moms playing level is Bach's level and is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteAllusions: “I never believed in the afterlife before. And to be honest, I always thought mine would come in shades of red and heat” (Mass 11) Tessa is referencing to Hell and she’s saying that she thought she was going to end up in Hell not Heaven.
ReplyDelete"Woe to humanity, Woe the German people if God's Holy Commandment 'Thou shall not kill,' is not only transgressed but if the transgression is both tolerated and carried out without punishment" (LeZotte 62). This is referencing one of God's holy commandment that says not to kill. The book states this to tell the Nazis to stop killing innocent people even with their disabilities.
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ReplyDeleteAllusion: “You know the part in Cinderella when everyone goes to the ball and she sits at home, crying? It wasn’t because her gown was ripped. It was because she knew she was an idiot for thinking she could grab a prince. I know how she feels”. (Bingham 242) Jane was saying that she was stupid for thinking that Max (the hottest guy at school) would ever like her.
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ReplyDeletea monster hug
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this allusion is referring to the monsters inc. movie
When he turns the key, the radio goes on with the motor. Right away, the Bees Gees start singing, got the wings of heaven on my shoes. I wish I did. I'd fly far away from Billy and Davey and Rob (Burg 50). This is an allusion because it is referincing to a song that the Bees Gees sang that had to do with having the wings of heaven. Matt relates to this song because he is frustrated and wants to "fly away" from everyone.
ReplyDelete"It would have been like throwing up on the Mona Lisa, in Marylin's opinion, because her fairy princess costume had turned out to be a work of art" (Dowell 126). The allusion is referencing the famous painting in Du Louvre. The author was saying that to Marylin, her costume was very special to her and that if anything happened to it she would be devastated.
ReplyDelete"They're about people who are successful in sports
ReplyDeleteeven though each of them has vision in only one eye.
There's a professional hockey player,
a college baseball pitcher, and lots of others" (Fehler 86).
This is referencing Jordan Underwood, a Southwest Missouri pitcher who lost his eye with a line drive to the face. And yet he continued to play.
"So I'll read them Lucille Clifton's 'Hips' or Hayden Carruth's ' Cows at Night.." (Kearney 91) the author has the main character talk about reading her favorite poems to her friends.
ReplyDeleteI honestly dont understand allusions. And i couldn't find one in shark girl. But if her and justin mentioning legos a lot count i guess that works.
ReplyDeleteallusion: “I put it down, feeling it with my fingertips, trying to read it like someone who’s blind” (Bryant 115) she is explaining that the words are so unreadable she is havng to try and fell the letters as if she were blind *I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for but I just took a guess*
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