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Fences' Allusions

The Mason-Dixon Line

The Mason-Dixon Line

By: Toni Lahdo May 31,2014 Period 8

The Mason-Dixon line is an allusion to United States history.

Allusion: a reference to a familiar person, event, place, or idea drawn from history, literature, science, religion, popular culture, etc.

What is an Allusion?

Act I Scene I page 2-3

For Example:

Our main character Troy's last name Maxson connotes the racial divide. Troy Maxson feels that there is still prejudice in America.

What is the Allusion?

Why Did the Author Include it?

The Mason-Dixon Line is widely known as the symbolic divider between the Union and Confederate states during the Civil War. It divided slave states from non-slave states.

Web. 28 May 2014.

Works Cited

"The Mason-Dixon Line." Mason Dixon Line Map and Information. N.p., n.d.

<http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/lgcolor/mdmasondixson.htm>.

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