LIN 655 FINAL EXAMINATION PART I:
LIN 655 (LINGUISTIC HUMOR ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES) FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE: Covering Raskin’s The Primer of Humor Research 281-673, Nilsen & Nilsen Encyclopedia of 20th Century American Humor Related PowerPoints & Student PowerPoint Presentations
1-pt Acronyms: GTVH, JAPE, SSTH,
1-pt Definitions: 1024, Emoticons, Fuzzy logic, Rigor, Semantic Priming
1-pt Explanations: Murphy’s Law, The Peter Principle, Paul Herbig’s Principle of Bureaucratic Tinkertoys, The Final Rules of Business
1-pt Humor-Scholar Identifications: Amy Carrell, Christian Hempelmann, Giselinde Kuipers, Lawrence Mintz, Tarez Samra Graban, John Morreall, Katrina Triezenberg, Dineh Davis, Delia Chiaro, Andrea Samson
1-pt Humorous-Author/Artist Identifications: Scott Adams, Edward Albee, Sherman Alexie, Woody Allen, Russell Baker, Regina Barreca, Dave Barry, Samuel Beckett, Robert Benchley, Erma Bombeck, Joseph Boskin, Art Buchwald, John Callahan, Al Cap, the Cohen Brothers, Sarah Blacher Cohen, Salvador Dali, M. C. Escher, William Faulkner, Jules Feiffer, Stephen Gale, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Matt Groening, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Johnny Hart, Joseph Heller, Molly Ivins, Garrison Keillor, Walt Kelly, Ken Kesey, Roy Lichtenstein, Rene Magritte, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Andy Rooney, J. K. Rowling, Charles Schulz, Tom Stoppard, Quentin Tarantino, James Thurber, Garry Trudeau, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Mort Walker, Andy Warhol, E. B. White, P. G. Wodehouse
1-pt Humorous-Character Identifications: Alan Alda, Steve Allen, Tim Allen, Tom Ammiano, Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Candace Bergen, Edgar Bergen, Sandra Bernhard, Elayne Boosler, Fanny Brice, Lenny Bruce, Carol Burnett, George Burns, Sid Caesar, George Carlin, Jim Carrey, Johnny Carson, Charley Chaplin, Chevy Chase, Cheech and Chong, Imogen Coca, Bill Cosby, Jane Curtin, Tony Curtis, Danny DeVito, Lea Delarea, Craig Ferguson, Budd Fisher, Jeff Foxworthy, Redd Foxx, Jackie Gleason, Whoopi Goldberg, Cary Grant, Andy Griffith, Jackie Guerra, Jim Henson, Katherine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Jimmy Kimball, Jerry Lewis, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Jack Lemmon, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Moms Mabley, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Conan O’Brien, Carroll O’Connor, Rosie O’Donnell, Richard Pryor, Gilda Radner, Rita Radner, Carl Reiner, Joan Rivers, Chris Rock, Mark Russell, Mort Sahl, Arnold Schwarzenegger, . Jerry Seinfeld, Red Skelton, Smothers Brothers, the Three Stooges, John Travolta, Dick Van Dyke, Shawn Wayans, Mae West, Flip Wilson
2-pt Contrasts: Bottom-Up Reasoning vs. Top-Down Reasoning
3-pt Examples: 3 Domestic Comedians, 3 Groundbreaking Comedians, 3 Knockabout Comedians, 3 Nerds, Jerks, or Oddballs, 3 Satirists
1-pt Identifications: Animator vs. Animation, Circuit Fix-It Shop, ELIZA, Script Model Grammar
5-pt Listing: 5 salient facts about the history of humor; 5 locations of ISHS conferences, 5 features of an advertisement (sweet language); 5 features of a novel (tough language)
5-pt Short-Answer Essay Questions: Contrast the comic vision with the tragic vision.
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LIN 655 FINAL EXAMINATION PART II:
2-pt Joke: Everyone belongs to a marginalized group. List a marginalized group that you belong to and tell the punch line of a joke relating to that group
3-pt Listing: Three Humane Humor Rules (Don’t target victim, Don’t target a weakness, Don’t target something the person can’t change)
4-pt Listing: features of late-night TV, significant sit coms, features of a good joke
5-pt Listing of Examples: slang, jargon, children’s stages in humor appreciation
è15-pt Long-Answer Take-Home Questions: Explain in detail any three of the following questions (between half a page and a page double spaced): 1. the nature of stand-up comedy, 2. the nature of the TV sit-com, 3. the varying styles of Black comedians, 4. the varying styles of women comedians, 5. the nature of Jewish humor, 6. the benefits of humor in the classroom, 7. the nature of Indian Humor, 8. the nature of humor in business and advertising, 9. the nature of children’s humor, 10. the nature of smiling, laughing, and tickling, 10. the nature of humor in the media ç
èNOTE: Student Presentations: There will be a number of questions related to each of the student presentations. These questions will be given to you after I have had a chance to review all of the student PowerPoints. ç
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LIN 655: QUESTIONS FROM STUDENT PAPERS:
5-POINT LISTING: Stuff that white people like
4-POINT LISTING: 1. Targets of Chaucer’s satire, 2. Story Arcs in Seinfeld’s “The Merv Griffin Show”
3-POINT EXPLANATIONS: 1. The amazing color-changing card trick; 2. The amazing gorilla in the basketball game
3-POINT LISTING: 1. Types of misdirection; 2. Stuff that white people hate
1-POINT DEFINITIONS: Doublespeak, Elevated Language, Euphemism, Frame Semantics, Gobbledygook, Inatentional Blindness, Jargon, Ontological Semantics, Script Theory Grammar, Shaggy Dog Joke
2-POINT IDENTIFICATIONS (RELATE TO HUMOR AND TO A STUDENT POWERPOINT): Noam Chomsky, Charles Fillmore, Christian Lander, Victor Raskin, Willibald Ruch, Bob Saget, Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, Steven Wright
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