Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Exam Review

You need to have read The little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel, East of the Sun West of the Moon, Blue Beard, and the Juniper Tree. Read the notes along the margins about other versions...

The questions are as follows:
Archetypal lady in Finnegan's wake? The Prank Quean
Portmanteau: alot of meaning packed into one word (ex:) "slithy" slimy and slithery
What are the privileged numbers in fairy tales? #3 and #7
Displaced Concreteness: something that is no original, and can be true in real life (ex:)
hair really could hold the weight of a man.
Type 333 in the index of folk tales belongs to what story? Little Red Riding Hood
Collective Unconscious manifests itself through.....archetypes
"If you're really crafty you'll get them both." said by the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood
What are the 3 parts to the universal quest? Separation, Initiation, and Return
Triple Goddess? The mother, the maiden and the crone
Why is there no original? Because everything is really just displaced myth
What are you recognizing in someone when you bow to them? the divine
The genie in Aladin says "I'm not history, I'm ......" mythology!
The difference between Cinderellas name in the two versions is her name is......? Ash Girl
Motif index, where does Hans my Hedgehog, Beauty and the Beast, fall under? Beast Groom, or
the search for the missing husband.
What story doesn't concern itself with parents trying to conceive? Blue Beard
Mythological mother and daughter duo? Demeter and Persephone
Significance of the blue in blue beards beard? all of the above
The cause of transformation in Beauty and the Beast is due to? Love
How many wives does blue beard have? 7? 4? No body knew
The first talking horses? The golden ass
Why did cupid wake when his wife was looking at him? Hot oil hit his shoulder
The two Sisty Uglers is an example of.....? A Spoonerism
Which poet believed that man knew everything is to know? Wordsworth
What mythical story does beauty and the beast derive from? Cupid and psyche
Whats the moral to blue beard? anti- female, blames the woman for being curious. curiosity kills
few Grimm fairy tales have a witch in them...which one does? Hansel and Gretel
Who wanted to marry little red riding hood? Charles Dickens
What common phrase begins every fairy tale? Once upon a time/ Long Long ago

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