General Vocabulary & Misc.

Question 1

What is a portemanteau

Answer 1

one word that shortens two words and puts them together - ex. brunch

Question 2

What famous poem includes lots of portemanteaus?

Answer 2

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

Question 3

What is a nonce

Answer 3

word made up for the occasion but (typically) has no other use - ex. brillig

Question 4

What famous poem includes lots of nonce words?

Answer 4

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

Question 5

What is a stanza?

Answer 5

a ‘paragraph’ in poetry

Question 6

What is a couplet

Answer 6

a two-line stanza

Question 7

What is a tercet

Answer 7

a three-line stanza

Question 8

What is a quatrain

Answer 8

a four-line stanza

Question 9

What is the dragon called in the famous poem

Answer 9

a jabberwock (not jabberwocky although it is the name of the poem)

Question 10

What is a lying tale

Answer 10

poem that makes one assertion, but contradicts that assertion

Question 11

What is a famous example of a lying tale

Answer 11

Sir Gammer Vans

Question 12

What is a summary of the short story “Reunion”

Answer 12

a young son and his dad get together in NYC, they only have an hour to hang out so they go to a restaurant, the dad acts increasingly irrational and they have to go to multiple restaurants

Question 13

What is an interesting element of the short story “Reunion”

Answer 13

it starts and ends with the same phrase -> an embodiment of repetition as growing into one’s adult self

Question 14

What is Lewis Carroll a pseudonym for

Answer 14

Charles Dodgeson

Question 15

What is Carlos Collodi a pseudonym for

Answer 15

Carlos Lorenzini

Question 16

What did Carlos Collodi write

Answer 16

Pinocchio

Question 17

What did Lewis Carroll write

Answer 17

Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Jabberwocky, among other pieces

Question 18

What does inchoate mean

Answer 18

unformedness, important to think about when reviewing nonsense

Question 19

What are two tenets of fiction?

Answer 19

change and repetition

Question 20

Why is genre important?

Answer 20

a lot of children’s literature is folk tales (its own form/genre)

Question 21

What is exposition

Answer 21

where the world of the story and its rules are laid out -> the “exposing of the world”, usually prepares readers for the resolution

Question 22

What is resolution

Answer 22

the ending where everything is put into place

Question 23

What is Fryetag’s Pyramid

Answer 23

shows how narrative prose moves from beginning to end (not specifically a timeline)

Question 24

What elements are represented on Fryetag’s Pyramid

Answer 24

exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, conclusion

Question 25

What does Fryetag's Pyramid look like

Answer 25

a line, a triangle, a line

Question 26

What are two ways to narrate time?

Answer 26

diachronically (across linear time) and synchronically (everything happens in one moment)

Question 27

What are characteristics of a limerick

Answer 27

fairly short 5 line poem, AABBA rhyme scheme, anapaestic meter, generally full of lilting lines and innuendo

Question 28

What is anapaestic meter

Answer 28

a poetic meter that has four anapestic metrical feet per line. Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable (short, short, long)

Question 29

What are ways to describe lines of poetry

Answer 29

rhyme scheme & meter

Question 30

What is rhyme scheme

Answer 30

simple code for the way rhymes/poems work -> start with the first sound (at the end of a line) call it A, and all new sounds (end rhymes) get the following letters

Question 31

What is meter

Answer 31

syllabic (determined by syllables in English) determined by the number of "feet" in a line

Question 32

What is iambic pentameter

Answer 32

foot of 2 syllables 5 feet total

Question 33

What is blank verse

Answer 33

poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines (almost always iambic pentameter)

Question 34

What is free verse

Answer 34

poetry written without consistent patterns of rhyme or meter

Question 35

What are letters to language

Answer 35

signifiers that create words, however they are arbitrary and built into binaries (which makes a matrix/system of binaries) -> a thing is only a thing because it's another thing ex. nonsense is nonsense, but has to look like real words (not nonsense)

Question 36

How do you show someone how to recognize contrast before they understand even the concept of elements which will be contrasted?

Answer 36

repetition - sounds, rhythms

Question 37

Why do adults feel pleasure in the incohate?

Answer 37

nostalgia, freedom within limits (arguably the only kind of freedom), emphasis on very legible/reliable devices, lack of content mimics dream logic/lucid dreaming (surreal aspect) general activation of interest