Know your terms
This term refers to the process through which a fantasy world demonstrates a state of decay or danger prior to the protagonist's arrival.
What is Thinning (part of John Clute's fantasy structure)?
A prompt to wake up.
What is "you are just a deck of cards!" ?
This famous 18th-century philosopher wanted to remove the strictures of civilization from the child’s life. He theorized a perfect upbringing for an imaginary boy named Emile.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Her last name recalls the woods.
Who is Winnie Forster?
This character may have inspired the enigmatic cat in Coraline.
Who is the Cheshire Cat?
Baker connects fantasy to the way that this group of writers talked about the imagination.
Who are the Romantics?
This is Lewis Carroll's real name.
Who is Charles Dodgson?
This publisher published A Little Pretty Pocketbook and, nearly two centuries later, had a medal for children's literature named after him.
Who is John Newbery?
This character sells celestial gingerbread.
Who is Mrs. Corry?
This animal definitely drank from the spring.
Who is Mae Tuck's mare?
Sometimes called "modern fantasy" or "real world fantasy," this name for fantasy suggests it's not as lofty as fantasy set in Otherworlds.
What is Low Fantasy?
John Tenniel also drew for Punch magazine and others, but he's more famous for another work.
Who is the illustrator of Alice in Wonderland?
This educational reformer thought we should see children as rational beings.
Who is John Locke?
Her tree might make its way onto a new map.
Who is Lupe?
This lizard got quite a shock when they sent him down the chimney.
Who is Bill?
This term refers to the process through which cultures and texts explain away the fantastic aspects of folklore and fantasy.
What is rationalization?
If she's not Alice she might be this girl who doesn't know her schoolwork.
Who is Ada?
This poet exclaimed "Heaven lies about us in our infancy!"
Who is William Wordsworth?
He is the grown-up version of a brother who loves Turkish Delight.
Who is King Edmund the Just?
These birds showed up when the songbirds left.
What are the ravens in The Girl of Ink and Stars?
Tolkien called this the sense of relief and happiness we get at the resolution from a fantasy that ends happily.
What is Eucatastrophe?
This might be what Mendlesohn would call the rabbit hole.
What is a portal?
These wooden or ivory panels were covered in thin layers of horn and taught children their ABCs among other things.
What are hornbooks?
This character can be compared to Lilith, of Adam and Eve fame.
Who is Jadis (the White Witch)?
These three novels feature the same/ similar animal.
What is a cat? (Alice, Tuck, Coraline, HP, Girl of Ink and Stars)
What is a mouse or rat? (Alice, Coraline, HP, Tuck)