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 to identify each of the allusion below. The first one is done for you.

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

Reference: Hugh Latimer - a British clergyman and Protestant. He was burnt at the stake.

“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: ______

“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: ______