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LIN 655 FINAL EXAMINATION PART I:
LIN 655 (LINGUISTIC HUMOR ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES) FINAL EXAM STUDY
GUIDE: Covering Raskin’s The Primer of Humor Research 281-673, Nilsen &
Nilsen Encyclopedia of 20th Century American Humor Related PowerPoints &
Student PowerPoint Presentations
1-pt Acronyms: GTVH, JAPE, SSTH,
1-pt Definitions: 1024, Emoticons, Fuzzy logic, Rigor, Semantic Priming
1-pt Explanations: Murphy’s Law, The Peter Principle, Paul Herbig’s Principle of Bureaucratic
Tinkertoys, The Final Rules of Business
1-pt Humor-Scholar Identifications: Amy Carrell, Christian Hempelmann, Giselinde Kuipers,
Lawrence Mintz, Tarez Samra Graban, John Morreall, Katrina Triezenberg, Dineh Davis,
Delia Chiaro, Andrea Samson
1-pt Humorous-Author/Artist Identifications: Scott Adams, Edward Albee, Sherman Alexie,
Woody Allen, Russell Baker, Regina Barreca, Dave Barry, Samuel Beckett, Robert
Benchley, Erma Bombeck, Joseph Boskin, Art Buchwald, John Callahan, Al Cap, the
Cohen Brothers, Sarah Blacher Cohen, Salvador Dali, M. C. Escher, William Faulkner,
Jules Feiffer, Stephen Gale, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Matt Groening, Daniel Handler
(Lemony Snicket), Johnny Hart, Joseph Heller, Molly Ivins, Garrison Keillor, Walt
Kelly, Ken Kesey, Roy Lichtenstein, Rene Magritte, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy
Parker, S. J. Perelman, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Andy Rooney, J. K. Rowling,
Charles Schulz, Tom Stoppard, Quentin Tarantino, James Thurber, Garry Trudeau, Mark
Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Mort Walker, Andy Warhol, E. B. White, P. G. Wodehouse
1-pt Humorous-Character Identifications: Alan Alda, Steve Allen, Tim Allen, Tom
Ammiano, Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Candace Bergen, Edgar Bergen, Sandra
Bernhard, Elayne Boosler, Fanny Brice, Lenny Bruce, Carol Burnett, George Burns, Sid
Caesar, George Carlin, Jim Carrey, Johnny Carson, Charley Chaplin, Chevy Chase,
Cheech and Chong, Imogen Coca, Bill Cosby, Jane Curtin, Tony Curtis, Danny DeVito,
Lea Delarea, Craig Ferguson, Budd Fisher, Jeff Foxworthy, Redd Foxx, Jackie Gleason,
Whoopi Goldberg, Cary Grant, Andy Griffith, Jackie Guerra, Jim Henson, Katherine
Hepburn, Bob Hope, Jimmy Kimball, Jerry Lewis, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy,
Jack Lemmon, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Moms Mabley, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx,
Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Conan O’Brien, Carroll O’Connor, Rosie O’Donnell,
Richard Pryor, Gilda Radner, Rita Radner, Carl Reiner, Joan Rivers, Chris Rock, Mark
Russell, Mort Sahl, Arnold Schwarzenegger, . Jerry Seinfeld, Red Skelton, Smothers
Brothers, the Three Stooges, John Travolta, Dick Van Dyke, Shawn Wayans, Mae West,
Flip Wilson
2-pt Contrasts: Bottom-Up Reasoning vs. Top-Down Reasoning
3-pt Examples: 3 Domestic Comedians, 3 Groundbreaking Comedians, 3 Knockabout
Comedians, 3 Nerds, Jerks, or Oddballs, 3 Satirists
1-pt Identifications: Animator vs. Animation, Circuit Fix-It Shop, ELIZA, Script Model
Grammar
5-pt Listing: 5 salient facts about the history of humor; 5 locations of ISHS conferences, 5
features of an advertisement (sweet language); 5 features of a novel (tough language)
5-pt Short-Answer Essay Questions: Contrast the comic vision with the tragic vision.
PLEASE SEE THE BACK OF THIS PAGE FOR PART II OF THE STUDY GUIDE!
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LIN 655 FINAL EXAMINATION PART II:
2-pt Joke: Everyone belongs to a marginalized group. List a marginalized group that you
belong to and tell the punch line of a joke relating to that group
3-pt Listing: Three Humane Humor Rules (Don’t target victim, Don’t target a weakness, Don’t
target something the person can’t change)
4-pt Listing: features of late-night TV, significant sit coms, features of a good joke
5-pt Listing of Examples: slang, jargon, children’s stages in humor appreciation
15-pt Long-Answer Take-Home Questions: Explain in detail any three of the following
questions (between half a page and a page double spaced): 1. the nature of stand-up
comedy, 2. the nature of the TV sit-com, 3. the varying styles of Black comedians, 4. the
varying styles of women comedians, 5. the nature of Jewish humor, 6. the benefits of
humor in the classroom, 7. the nature of Indian Humor, 8. the nature of humor in business
and advertising, 9. the nature of children’s humor, 10. the nature of smiling, laughing,
and tickling, 10. the nature of humor in the media 
NOTE: Student Presentations: There will be a number of questions related to each of
the student presentations. These questions will be given to you after I have had a
chance to review all of the student PowerPoints. 
PLEASE SEE THE BACK OF THIS PAGE FOR PART I OF THE STUDY GUIDE!
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LIN 655: QUESTIONS FROM STUDENT PAPERS:
5-POINT LISTING: Stuff that white people like
4-POINT LISTING: 1. Targets of Chaucer’s satire, 2. Story Arcs in Seinfeld’s “The Merv
Griffin Show”
3-POINT EXPLANATIONS: 1. The amazing color-changing card trick; 2. The amazing
gorilla in the basketball game
3-POINT LISTING: 1. Types of misdirection; 2. Stuff that white people hate
1-POINT DEFINITIONS: Doublespeak, Elevated Language, Euphemism, Frame
Semantics, Gobbledygook, Inatentional Blindness, Jargon, Ontological Semantics,
Script Theory Grammar, Shaggy Dog Joke
2-POINT IDENTIFICATIONS (RELATE TO HUMOR AND TO A STUDENT
POWERPOINT): Noam Chomsky, Charles Fillmore, Christian Lander, Victor
Raskin, Willibald Ruch, Bob Saget, Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, Steven Wright
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