Exploring Personal Growth - Focus on Language: Allusions

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EMS - 7th Grade ELA - 7A Unit 2 Part 2 Video 2: Exploring Personal Growth - Focus on Language: Allusions

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  1. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, today we're gonna continue on with
  2. exploring personal grove, and today we talked specifically about all
  3. illusion A l l U S Island allusion.
  4. It's a brief, an indirect reference to a person, a
  5. place, an idea, a saying of historical, cultural, literary or
  6. even political significance.
  7. It doesn't describe in detail the person or thing that
  8. it's referring to.
  9. But instead, it's just a passing comment that the writer
  10. expects the reader to have enough background knowledge enough on
  11. that particular topic to be able to spot it and
  12. grasp its importance within the passage of the text.
  13. Some examples of allusion in literature would be Cinderella.
  14. When someone refers to a Cinderella story, Uh, or a
  15. person who is like Cinderella, the referring to a person
  16. who gains recognition or popularity or a better life after
  17. being treated poorly.
  18. Another one that we might hear every once in a
  19. while is Jekyll and Hyde, where ah person has two
  20. sides to the personality, and that is from the novel
  21. with the same name, Jekyll and Hyde.
  22. Another one that we might hear, uh, is if someone's
  23. being a Scrooge, someone who is bitter and greedy and
  24. very unhappy.
  25. Uh, there's also some that come from, uh, Greek.
  26. They come from Greek origin, like Achilles heel.
  27. Achilles was invulnerable, except when it came to his heels.
  28. That's, Ah, particular weakness that a person might have.
  29. You might hear the name Apollo.
  30. Apollo represents the physically perfect male.
  31. He was known for his physical beauty.
  32. And I think some people believe that that's why in
  33. one of the Rocky movies, hey was called Apollo Creed.
  34. Um, where he fought Apollo create.
  35. Um, if someone says that they're going on a nod,
  36. ISI that refers to, uh, the story by the same
  37. name. The Odyssey by Homer It's a long journey that
  38. someone might go on.
  39. People might have even heard of Pandora's box, something that
  40. opens the door for bad occurrences.
  41. It's by someone who is a very curious person.
  42. They know that some things in that box and they
  43. can't just leave it be.
  44. They have to figure it out and find out on
  45. their own.
  46. And typically bad things happen.
  47. Because of that, some allusions have religious backgrounds, if so
  48. much it were to say Alfa and Omega in the
  49. Bible. It refers to the beginning in the end, and
  50. that's from the Book of Revelations.
  51. Uh, if you talk about Goliath, you might be referring
  52. to a very large person from the giant from Philistine
  53. who was slain by the boy.
  54. David. If you are talking about Judas, you might be
  55. referring to a traitor.
  56. Ah, prodigal son is one who is a wasteful son
  57. who is a disappointment to his father and his family
  58. members. If you are talking about a scapegoat, that's one
  59. where the person is the one that gets blamed for
  60. other people.
  61. He may not have been the person who actually did
  62. the particular action, but he's the one that's receiving the
  63. blame for it.
  64. All right, so just to review an illusion is a
  65. reference that is made to another element.
  66. There are four main types.
  67. They are often biblical.
  68. It could be from the Bible.
  69. It could be literary, coming from another work of a
  70. written piece.
  71. It could be mythological, coming from myths from any of
  72. the Greek Roman Egyptian etcetera.
  73. Or it could just be something popular brought about by
  74. television and movies like Kryptonite.
  75. Um, we all know the Superman had a weakness and
  76. chocolate might be someone's kryptonite.
  77. So if you keep these elements in mind and their
  78. definitions and where the phrases might have derived from, you're
  79. gonna do very well on the focus on language when
  80. it comes to allusion.