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AP Allusions
2015-2016
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Mythological
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Literature
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Biblical
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Historical
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| Achilles' heel | Babbitt | Absolom | Attila |
| Adonis | Brobdingnangian | Alpha and Omega | Berserk |
| Aeolian | Bumble | Cain | Bloomer |
| Apollo | Cinderella | Daniel | Bowdlerize |
| Argus-eyed | Don Juan | David and Bathsheba | Boycott |
| Athena/Minerva | Don Quixote | Eye of the Needle | Canopy |
| Atlantean | Panglossian | Filthy Lucre | Casanova |
| Aurora | Falstaffian | Goliath | Chauvinist |
| Bacchanal | Frankenstein | Good Samaritan | Derrick |
| Calliope | Friday | Handwriting on the wall | Donnybrook |
| Cassandra | Galahad | Ishmael | Dungaree |
| Centaur | Jekyll and Hyde | Jacob | El Dorado |
| Chimera | Lilliputian | Job | Hackney |
| Cupidity | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Job's comforters | Horatio Alger |
| Furor | Lothario | Jonah | Laconic |
| Gorgon | Malapropism | Judas | Limerick |
| Halcyon | Milquetoast | King Ahab and Jezebel | Machiavellian |
| Harpy | Pickwickian | Manna | Marathon |
| Hector | Pollyanna | Original Sin/The Fall | McCarthyism |
| Helen (of Troy) | Pooh-bah | Pearl of Great Price | Meander |
| Herculean | Quixotic | Philistine | Mesmerize |
| Hydra-headed | Robot | Prodigal Son | Nostradamus |
| Iridescent | Rodomontade | Ruth and Naomi | Sardonic |
| Jovial | Scrooge | Samson and Delilah | Shanghai |
| Junoesque | Simon Legree | Scapegoat | Spartan |
| Lethargy | Svengali | Sepulcher | Stonewall |
| Martial | Tartuffe | Sodom and Gomorrah | Swiftian |
| Medea | Uncle Tom | Solomon | Sybaritic |
| Mentor | Uriah Heep | Twelve Tribes of Israel | Thespian |
| Mercurial | Walter Mitty | Uncle Sam | |
| Mercury/Hermes | Yahoo | Utopia | |
| Mnemonics | Wagnerian | ||
| Morphine | Waterloo | ||
| Muse | |||
| Narcissism | |||
| Nemesis | |||
| Neptune | |||
| Niobe | |||
| Odyssey | |||
| Olympian | |||
| Paean | |||
| Pandora's Box | |||
| Parnassus | |||
| Pegasus | |||
| Phoenix | |||
| Plutocracy | |||
| Promethean | |||
| Protean | |||
| Psyche | |||
| Pygmalion | |||
| Pyrrhic victory | |||
| Saturnalia | |||
| Saturnine | |||
| Sibyl | |||
| Sisyphean | |||
| Stentorian | |||
| Stygian | |||
| Tantalize | |||
| Terpsichorean | |||
| Titanic | |||
| Volcanoes | |||
| Vulcanize | |||
| Zeus | |||