Can you name the Literary Allusions in Song?

created by beastiegirl
  • Enter a Work of Literature in the box below
  • Correctly named Works of Literature will show up below
  • Click any empty Lyric or Literary Work to answer for that location
  • Can you name the literature the artist is alluding to in each of the following lyrics?
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LyricLiterary WorkMusical Artist
One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you smallJefferson Airplane
It's no use. He sees her, he starts to shake and cough just like the old man in that book by NabokovThe Police
Oh there ain't no love, no Montagues or CapuletsArctic Monkeys
Don't ever tell anyone anything or else you'll wind up missing everybodyThe Ataris
Ophelia drowned in the water, crushed by her own weightJewel
Soma is what they would take when hard times opened their eyesThe Strokes
And so it was that later, as the miller told his tale, that her face at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of paleProcol Harum
The blind man sleeps in the doorway, his home. . . But I gave you allMumford and Sons
LyricLiterary WorkMusical Artist
I'm like Estella. I like to reel it in and then spit it outAlanis Morrisette
They say he's crazy, they say he's gone. We play our tricks, make up funny songs, sneaking around, feeling badly, sneaking up on Boo RadleyBruce Hornsby
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick roadElton John
She made me promise not to cry, so here is a drink - I drink to theeHollerado
Heathcliff, it's me, it's Cathy. I've come home. I'm so cold. Let me in-a your window!Kate Bush
We came here on a plane just a bunch of little boys, dropped the boulder on his brain, you can never take it backGatsby's American Dream
'Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair but Gollum and the evil one crept up and slipped away with herLed Zeppelin
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Literature in Songs Quiz

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  • Created Dec 10, 2012 in Literature
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