Test 1 Study Guide

Below are the questions from class that need to be remembered for the test.

1. dolce dumum: home sweet home

2. What kind of litterature goes on during plerosis (the filling up)?
comedy and romance

3. What/Who does Mama Lujo refer to in Finnegans Wake?
Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John

4. What does "God safe firelamp" sound like in Finnegans Wake?
"God save Ireland"

5. Who are the five main characters of Finnegans Wake?
1. HCE
2. ALP
3. Shem
4. Shaun
5. Issy


6. Name 2 of the 4 imaginary lands mentioned at the begining of Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
1. Zemla
2. Zenda
3. Xanado
4. Zafar

7. How does Malloy get into communication with his mother?
By knocking on her skull

8. What happened to Moran's son?
We don't really know for sure

9. $ in "Malloy"
--> gives son 4 pence for bike
--> an indication of the deteration of the character as even material wealth deteriorates by end

10. The begining of "East Coker," in the Four Quartets, begins with what theme from class?
*Myth of Eternal Return
--> memorize the first 3 lines of East Coker: "In my begining is my end. In succession/ Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,/ Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place/ Is an open field, or factory, or a by-pass.

11. Who was the German philosopher that was responsible for the rethinking of the myth of eternal return?
Frederick Nietzsche

12. Nietzsche said, "The closest approximation of coming into being" (I'm what is was in reference to though)

13. portmanteau: when two words are combined to make another word that infers multiple meanings
--> image of a portmanteau brief case with two separate compartments

14. metathesis: corpse + crops = cropse

15. What is the name of the maid in the Skin of Our Teeth? What does it refer to historically?
Her name is "Sabina", and it is a reference to the Sabine women (the abduction of Sabine women by Romans for wives)


16. 4 elements in the Four Quartets
1. Air (Burnt Norton)
2. Earth (East Coker)
3. Water (Dry Salvages)
4. Fire (Little Gidding)

17. Who is Maggie from the Skin of Our Teeth compared to in Finnegans Wake?
Analivia Plurabell

18. Henry = Cain (scar on his forehead is in a "c" shape)

19. demotic language: "dude language"; language of the common men
-->Giambatista Vico's decline of ages/language *gods-heroes-men-chaos-

20. What happens in the space between "the" and "river run..."?
*the whole day
*the completion of the novel through the completion of the sentence

21. What does P2C2E mean?
Process too Complicated to Explain

22. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is profoundly referential to other pieces of literature, to what 4 digit number does Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Finnegans Wake refer to?
1001

23. What is the name of the song played in class to introduce Finnegans Wake?
The Ballad of Tim Finnegan

24. FINNEGAN'S WAKE...what is wrong with this?
There is no apostrophe, indicating it is referring to multiple people, not just one person

*Be familiar with the terms in the glossary of Haroun and the Sea of Stories

*Review the class notes found in Sam Clanton's "master" blog