Language and Imagination
Social Mythology and Illusion
Two Parallel Worlds
100
This term means the language of the imagination, which is the focus of this chapter.

What is the language of imagination?


100

This form of language uses ready-made formulas.

What is cliché?

100

According to Frye, we live in two parallel worlds: the world we see and this world.

What is the imaginative world?

200

According to Frye, the study of literature seeks to train and improve this part of the mind.

What is imagination?


200

According to Frye, publicity is an example of the intended creation of this amid real life. 

What is advertising?

200

Frye describes this world as the one revealed by philosophy, history, science, religion and law. 

What is the cultural environment?

300

Frye explains that literature speaks this language, different from ordinary speech and conveying information.

What is the language of imagination?

300

The author mentions a form of language that seeks to sound impersonal, mostly used in this context.

What is gobbledygook or jargon?

300

Frye highlights that this world can provide the standards and values needed to go beyond more adjustment to society. 

What is culture?

400

The use of rhetoric in everyday life involves speaking the right thing at the right time while balancing these two elements.

What are the moral and aesthetic factors in rhetoric?


400

Frye discusses the use of this language in military writing.

What is euphemistic language?

400

According to Frye, the imagination and words are the building blocks of the human construct.

What is the imagination?

500

In Frye's view, our imagination is responsible for building this important social vision.

What is the social vision of rhetoric?

500

When we look at advertising, we recognize that it means something different from what it says, displaying the power of the literary device.   

What is irony?

500

The chapter uses the story of the Tower of Babel as a metaphor to highlight the significance of these two factors in shaping civilization. 

What are words and imagination?