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HUMOROUS NAMES IN LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS : 

HUMOROUS NAMES IN LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS by Alleen Nilsen and Don Nilsen

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The Bad Beginning 1999 The Reptile Room 1999 The Wide Window 2000 The Miserable Mill 2000 The Austere Academy 2000 The Ersatz Elevator 2000 The Vile Village 2001 The Hostile Hospital 2001 The Carniverous Carnival 2002 The Slippery Slope 2004 The Grim Grotto 2004 Art Too Awful to Show or Title Too Terrible to Reveal 2005

RECYCLING, INTERTEXTUALITY AND SMART ALLUSIONS 1: 

RECYCLING, INTERTEXTUALITY AND SMART ALLUSIONS 1 Dr. Georgina Orwell Medusoid Mycelium Mushrooms Esmé andamp; Jerome Squalor’s Penthouse at 667 Dark Avenue J. D. Salinger’s Short Story: 'To Esmé with Love and Squalor' Violet’s Name from T. S. Eliot’s 'The Violet Hours' The Austere Academy = Prufrock Preparatory School Vice Principal Nero Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire = Claus and Sunny Von Bulow = Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

RECYCLING, INTERTEXTUALITY AND SMART ALLUSIONS 2: 

RECYCLING, INTERTEXTUALITY AND SMART ALLUSIONS 2 Isadora and Duncan Quagmire = Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) The Queequeg Submarine Herman Melville Team and the Ahab Memorial Hospital vs. The Edgar A. Guest Team The Hostile Hospital = The Heimlich Hospital Patients include: Emma Bovary, Clarissa Dalloway, Orlando, and Sappho Edgar Allan Poe: Mr. Poe, The Nevermore Tree, and the Murder of Crows

RECYCLING, INTERTEXTUALITY AND SMART ALLUSIONS 3: 

RECYCLING, INTERTEXTUALITY AND SMART ALLUSIONS 3 Count Olaf = Captain Sham = Surgeon Flacatouno = Al Funcoot = Coach Ghengis Mort = Mort Main Mountains = Le Petit Mort = Mortuary Money Management = Memento Mori Hotel Denouement, Mount Fraught, Grim River and Salmonella Café

Dedications to Beatrice 1: 

Dedications to Beatrice 1 To Beatrice—Darling, Dearest, Dead… For Beatrice—You’ll always be in my heart, in my mind, and in your grave. For Beatrice—When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are. For Beatrice—Our love broke my heart, and stopped yours. For Beatrice—When we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

Dedications to Beatrice 2: 

Dedications to Beatrice 2 For Beatrice—Summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you is even colder. To Beatrice—My love flew like a butterfly, Until death swooped down like a bat. As the poet Emma Montana McEllroy said: 'That’s the end of that.' For Beatrice—When we met, you were pretty, and I was lonely. Now, I’m pretty lonely. For Beatrice—Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

Beatrice in Dante’s Devine Comedy 1: 

Beatrice in Dante’s Devine Comedy 1 At age 9, Dante Aligieri met Beatrice Portinari, and fell in love. The greeted each other on the street for 16 years. Dante was promised to another woman, Gemma. In 1290, at age 25, Beatrice died. Dante took refuge in writing to and about Beatrice.

Beatrice in Dante’s Devine Comedy 2: 

Beatrice in Dante’s Devine Comedy 2 Dante dedicated his Devine Comedy to Beatrice, who in the novel served as his guide through Paradise. With Gemma, he had a daughter named Antonia She became a nun, and took the name of Sister Beatrice.

MORT = DEATH: 

MORT = DEATH Mort Main Mountains Le Petit Mort Mortuary Money Management Bank Memento Mori School Motto

FORESHADOWING: 

FORESHADOWING Hotel Denouement Mount Fraught Grim River Salmonella Café

ALLITERATION: 

ALLITERATION Caligari Carnival, Domocles Dock, Finite Forest, Fowl Fountain, Grim Gorgonian Grotto, Lake Lachrymose and Stricken Stream… Fickle Ferry, Hurricane Herman, Lachrymose Leeches and Lousy Lane

PUNS: 

PUNS Operating Theaters Stiletto Heels Red Herrings

!ERSATZ: 

!ERSATZ The Ersatz Elevator Ersatz Rope (bedsheets for climbing up the elevator) Ersatz Guardian (Esme Squalor) You can imagine that Duncan and Isadora free themselves from Count Olaf’s clutches…, 'but such imaginings will be ersatz, as are all imaginings.'

!!REPETITIONS OF V.F.D. : 

!!REPETITIONS OF V.F.D. Valley of Four Drafts Veiled Facial Disguises Verbal Fridge Dialogue Verdant Flammable Devices Verse Fluctuation Declaration Versed Furtive Disclosure Vertical Flame Diversion Very Fresh Dill Village of Fowl Devotees

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!!! Voice Fakery Disguises Volatile Fungus Deportation Voluntary Fish Domestication Volunteer Factual Dispatch Volunteers Fighting Diseases Very Fancy Doilies Volunteer Fire Department Very Fine Delivery!