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HANSAN WEEK 3 VOCAB
HANSAN WEEK 3 VOCAB - fictional character names that have become words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Brobdingnagian | -huge, massive -Gulliver's Travel- Jonathan Swift -massive creatures |
| Cinderella | -rags to riches -Cinderella-Brothers Grimm |
| Casanova | -ingenuine lover -Historie de Ma Vie- Giacono Giavani -stole peoples stuff, player |
| Don Juan | -genuine lover -El burlador de Sevilla-Lord Byron -loves all women |
| Falstaffian | -comic relief -Multi-plays-Shakspeare -fat drunk |
| Frankenstein | -to put parts together, to fix -Frankenstein-1818-Mary Shelly |
| Friday | -well trusted assistant -Robinson curso- Daniel Defoe |
| Galahad | -chivalrous -King Author books-Toman Malory |
| Uriah Heep | -hypocrate -David Copperfield-1850s-Dickens |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | -perfect, two shoed, shy -Little Lord Fauntleroy(+comic)-Burnett |
| Milquetoast | -no guts -The Timid Soul - Webster |
| Pollyanna | -optimistic (perfect world) -Pollyanna-1913- Eleanor Porter |
| Pooh-Bah | -lots of assorted jobs -The Mikada-1885- Gilbert and Sullivan |
| Quixotic | -fantesty life -Don Quixote-1612- Cervantes |
| Robot | -to do w/out thinking -R.U.R-1923-Karl Capek |
| Simon Legree | -slave driver -Uncle Tom's cabin-1852-stowe |
| Svengali | -controls you (pressures) -Tribly- 1894-Du Mauriers |
| Tartuffe | -better than -Tartuffe- 1664- Moliere |
| Uncle Tom | -befriends all (betrater) (black) -Uncle Tom's Cabin - 1852- Stowe |