Name: ______

Allusion: A passing reference to historical or fictional characters,
places, or events, or to other works that the writer assumes the
reader will recognize.

Allusions in Fahrenheit 451

Use the internet or a quotations book in the library to identify each of the allusion below.

“Play the man, Maters Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”

Reference: ______

“Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.”

Reference: ______

“Tower of Babel”

Reference: ______

“It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.”

Reference: ______

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”

Reference: ______

“That favourite subject. Myself.”

Reference: ______

“Consider the lilies of the field. They toil not, neither do they...”

Reference: ______

“Who are little wise, the best fools be.”

Reference: ______

“Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning”

Reference: ______

“They are never alone that are accompanied by noble thoughts”

Reference: ______

“Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.”

Reference: ______

“Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense is rarely found”

Reference: ______

“A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.”

Reference: ______

“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.”

Reference: ______

“He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.”

Reference: ______

“Truth will come to light, murder will not be hid long.”

Reference: ______

“The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose”

Reference: ______

“This age thinks better of a gilded fool, than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school”

Reference: ______

“The dignity of proof is lost with much protesting

Reference: ______

“Knowledge is power”

Reference: ______

“the tyranny of the majority”

Reference: ______