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Onomastic Sarcasm, Cynicism and Mock
Condescension in Lemony Snickets Series of
Unfortunate Events (by Daniel Handler)
- by Don L. F. Nilsen and
- Alleen Pace Nilsen
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Don Nilsen as Count Olaf
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Tracey Floress Students as Count Olaf
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One The Bad Beginning
- If you are interested in stories with happy
endings, you would be better off reading some
other book. In this book, not only is there no
happy ending, there is no happy beginning and
very few happy things in the middle.Lemony
Snicket
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Two The Reptile Room
- Dramatic irony is a cruel occurrence, one that is
almost always upsetting, and I'm sorry to have it
appear in this story, but Violet, Klaus, and
Sunny have such unfortunate lives, that it was
only a matter of time before dramatic irony would
rear its ugly head.Lemony Snicket
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Three The Wide Window
- Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will
want to make other people miserable, too. But it
never helps.Lemony Snicket
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Four The Miserable Mill
- If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an
alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and
hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't
have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody
will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or
left-handed," but most of us would say something
more along the lines of, "Aaaaah! My arm! My
arm!"Lemony Snicket
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Five The Austere Academy
- Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and
like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for
instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make
even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in
terrible trouble.Lemony Snicket
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Six The Ersatz Elevator
- To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes
one anxious, because it means that if the only
hope doesn't work, there is nothing left, and
that is never pleasant to think about, however
true it might be.Lemony Snicket
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Seven The Vile Village
- The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry
barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked
broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful
is about to happen.Lemony Snicket
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Nine The Carnivorous Carnival
- "It doesn't take courage to kill someone," Klaus
said. "It takes a severe lack of moral
stamina."Lemony Snicket
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Ten The Slippery Slope
- Taking one's chances is like taking a bath,
because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable
and warm, and sometimes there is something
terrible lurking around that you cannot see until
it is too late and you can do nothing else but
scream and cling to a plastic duck. - Lemony Snicket
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Eleven The Grim Grotto
- Of course it is boring to read about boring
things, but it is better to read about things
that make you yawn with boredom than something
that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound
your fists on the floor, and leave tearstains all
over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang
collection. - Lemony Snicket
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Twelve The Penultimate Peril
- But the three siblings were not born yesterday.
Violet was born more than fifteen years before
this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born
approximately two years after that, and even
Sunny who had just passed out of babyhood, was
not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of
course I am wrong, in which case, welcome to the
world, little baby, and congratulations on
learning to read so early in life. - Lemony Snicket
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Thirteen The End
- A moral compass appears to be a delicate device,
and as people grow older and venture out into the
world, it often becomes more and more difficult
to figure out which direction ones moral compass
is pointing, so it is harder and harder to figure
out the proper thing to do. - Lemony Snicket
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Snow Scout Alphabet Pledge
- The Snow Scout Alphabet Pledge is a parody of the
Boy Scout pledge - A boy scout is clean.
- A boy scout is helpful.
- A boy scout is reverent.
- Were going to make our own Snow Scout Alphabet
pledge. Alleen will be our Scout Master from A
to Z. - After Z take a big breath and make a long, airy
sound, as if imitating the wind.
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Snow Scout Alphabet Pledge
- Snow Scouts are accomodating, basic, calm,
darling, emblematic, frisky, grinning, human,
innocent, jumping, kept, limited, meek,
nap-loving, official, pretty, quarantined,
recent, scheduled, tidy, understandable,
victorious, wholesome, xylophone, young, and
zipperedevery morning, every afternoon, every
night, and all day long! - Take a big breath and make a long, airy sound,
as if imitating the wind.
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Count Olaf Anagrams
- Al Funcoot
- Flacutono (the foreman)
- Flacutono (the surgeon)
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MORT DEATH
- Mort Main Mountains
- Le Petit Mort
- Mortuary Money Management Bank
- Memento Mori School Motto
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FORESHADOWING
- Hotel Denouement
- Mount Fraught
- Grim River
- Salmonella Café
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ALLITERATION
- Caligari Carnival, Domocles Dock, Finite Forest,
Fowl Fountain, Grim Gorgonian Grotto, Lake
Lachrymose and Stricken Stream - Fickle Ferry, Hurricane Herman, Lachrymose
Leeches and Lousy Lane
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PUNS
- Operating Theaters
- Stiletto Heels
- Red Herrings
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ERSATZ
- The Ersatz Elevator
- Ersatz Rope (bedsheets for climbing up the
elevator) - Ersatz Guardian (Esme Squalor)
- You can imagine that Duncan and Isadora free
themselves from Count Olafs clutches, but such
imaginings will be ersatz, as are all
imaginings.
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REPETITIONS OF V.F.D.
- Valley of Four Drafts
- Veiled Facial Disguises
- Verbal Fridge Dialogue
- Verdant Flammable Devices
- Verse Fluctuation Declaration
- Versed Furtive Disclosure
- Vertical Flame Diversion
- Very Fresh Dill
- Village of Fowl Devotees
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- Voice Fakery Disguises
- Volatile Fungus Deportation
- Voluntary Fish Domestication
- Volunteer Factual Dispatch
- Volunteers Fighting Diseases
- Very Fancy Doilies
- Volunteer Fire Department
- Very Fine Delivery!
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In Conclusion, here are some smart allusions
- History Isadora Duncan, Ghengis Kahn, Nero
- Literature Baudelaire, Dante, Elliot, Guest,
Orwell, Melville, Nabokov, Poe, Salinger - Mythology Medusa
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And here are are some other rhetorical devices
- Acronyming VFD Verbal Fridge Dialogue, Village
of Fowl Devotees, - Alliteration Briny Beach, Caligary Carnival,
Curdled Cave, Daedalus Dock - Count Olafs Disguises Al Funcoot, Staphano,
Captain Sham, Foreman Flacutono, Coach Genghis,
Gunther, Detective Dupin, Mattathias, Surgeon
Flacutono - Ersatz Elevator, Rope, Gaurdian, Imaginings
- Gothic and Death References Grim River, Hotel
Denouement, Memento Mori, Mortmain Mountains,
Salmonella Cafe - Puns Operating Theatres, Stiletto Heels
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Some Baudelaire Guardiansand Some Baudelaire
Locations
- Baudelaire Guardians Count Olaf, Dr. Montgomery
Montgomery (Uncle Monty), Aunt Josephine, Sir,
Jerome and Esme Squalor, Village of Fowl Devotees
(Hector), Dewey Denouement - Baudelaire Locations Count Olafs house, Uncle
Montys house, Lake Lachrymose, Prufrock
Preparatory School, 667 Dark Avenue Penthouse,
Village of Fowl Devotees, Heimlich Hospital,
Caligary Carnival, Mortmain Mountains, Queequeg
Submarine, Hotel Denouement
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Klauss ResearchSunnys Bites and Violets
Inventions
- Klauss Research grammar books, gum and log
scraper, Village of Fowl Devotees Rules, Madam
Lulus library, V.F.D. Library - Sunnys Bites Edgar Poes shoes, hooked-handed
mans fake arms, Count Olafs wooden leg, Dr.
Orwells sword, staples, wall of the elevator,
eye of the Fowl Fountain, file cabinets, ivy on
the roller coaster, Judge Strausss hand, canned
food, kitchen table - Violets Inventions Grappling Hook, lock pick
noise making device, noisy shoes, rope, paperclip
and ribbon keychain, ice shoes, drag chute
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RecyclingIntertextualityand Smart Allusions
- Dr. Georgina Orwell
- Medusoid Mycelium Mushrooms
- Esmé Jerome Squalors Penthouse at 667 Dark
Avenue - J. D. Salingers Short Story To Esmé with Love
and Squalor - Violets Name from T. S. Eliots The Violet
Hours - The Austere Academy Prufrock Preparatory School
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- Vice Principal Nero
- Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire Claus and Sunny Von
Bulow Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) - Isadora and Duncan Quagmire Isadora Duncan
(1877-1927) - The Queequeg Submarine Herman Melville Team and
the Ahab Memorial Hospital - vs. The Edgar A. Guest Team
- The Hostile Hospital The Heimlich Hospital
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- Patients include Emma Bovary, Clarissa Dalloway,
Orlando, and Sappho - Edgar Allan Poe Mr. Poe, The Nevermore Tree, and
the Murder of Crows - Count Olaf Captain Sham Surgeon Flacatouno
Al Funcoot Coach Ghengis - Mort Mort Main Mountains Le Petit Mort
Mortuary Money Management Memento Mori - Hotel Denouement, Mount Fraught, Grim River and
Salmonella Café
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Dedications to Beatrice
- To BeatriceDarling, Dearest, Dead
- For BeatriceYoull always be in my heart, in my
mind, and in your grave. - For BeatriceWhen we were together I felt
breathless. Now you are. - For BeatriceOur love broke my heart, and stopped
yours.
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- For BeatriceWhen we met, my life began. Soon
afterwards, yours ended. - For BeatriceSummer without you is as cold as
winter. Winter without you is even colder. - To BeatriceMy love flew like a butterfly,
- Until death swooped down like a bat.
- As the poet Emma Montana McEllroy said
- Thats the end of that.
- For BeatriceWhen we met, you were pretty, and I
was lonely. Now, Im pretty lonely. - For BeatriceDead women tell no tales. Sad men
write them down.
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Beatrice in Dantes Divine Comedy
- At age 9, Dante Aligieri met Beatrice Portinari,
and fell in love. - They greeted each other on the street for 16
years. - Dante was promised to another woman, Gemma.
- In 1290, at age 25, Beatrice died.
- Dante took refuge in writing to and about
Beatrice.
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- Dante dedicated his Divine Comedy to Beatrice,
who in the novel served as his guide through
Paradise. - With Gemma, he had a daughter named Antonia
- She became a nun, and took the name of Sister
Beatrice.
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WEB SITES
- LEMONY SNICKET
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vej3hAZ1QnqA
