Language
Narrator uses this Nickname to describe Pnin's broken english
Pninian English
Pnin's narcissistic ex wife who takes advantage of him
Liza
Narrators relationship with Pnin
Past acquaintance
Pnin sent a letter in french to his son Victor with a postcard featuring this animal of what color
A Gray Squirrel
Amount of children Nabokov had
One
The language the narrator describes as "music" when spoken by Pnin
Russian
Liza's son who visits Pnin, artistic
Victor Wind
Despite telling the story in a third person view, the narrator drops this pronoun occasionally
I(first person)
What was circling the squirrel in chapter 3
Pigeons
What college did Nabokov teach at that inspired Waindell College
Cornell University
Imagery, Metaphor, Symbolism, hyperbole, personification are all options(if anything different open to discussion)
Pnin's sympathetic landlords
The Clements
The narrator states that they don't like _______ _______, and that they're unfulfilling
Happy Endings
A squirrel appears on a campus bench right after Pnin experiences what?
Panic attack
Decade Pnin was published
1950s
Instead of normal grammar drills, Pnin teaches Russian class about this author and his poems on death
Pushkin
Victor's art teacher at St. Bart's who influences him through "His Profound knowledge of innumerable techniques"
Mr. Lake
Unique narrative style used throughout the book that blurs the line between fiction and biography
Unreliable narrator
The squirrel most commonly appears whenever something ___ has happened or about to happen
Bad, Misfortune
Nabokov's controversial 1955 masterpiece that brought fame before Pnin
Lolita
Pnin returns this book, only to find out he recalled it himself
Soviet Gold Fund of Literature
Librarian that guides Pnin through the situation he created himself
Mrs. Thayer
The descriptor given to the narrator's detailed and vocabulary heavy written style
Baroque/Nabokovian
The recurring presence of a squirrel in every chapter is this literary device
Motif
The study of butterflys
Lepidopterology