Lewis Carroll
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- proper noun
- /ˈluːɪs ˈkɛrəl/
- Lewis Carroll and Frank Baum used their fictional worlds to satirize life in their respective societies in the way only good fiction can, and in the process, they left enduring lessons.
- Lewis Carroll's Alice
Examples
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Lewis Carroll is celebrated for his imaginative characters and playful use of language in literature.
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These mnemonic games can even be fun—like learning to recite Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky"—but it is knowledge divorced from understanding.
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One recalls that Lewis Carroll was one of Pizarnik's favorite authors (Pina 222).
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The work, first published in 1843 by Henry Liddell (the father of Lewis Carroll's "Alice") and Robert Scott, has always been named A Greek-English Lexicon.
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Many children enjoy reading Lewis Carroll's enchanting stories that transport them to whimsical worlds.
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The influence of Lewis Carroll's work can be seen in countless adaptations and retellings of his tales.
Synonyms
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The real name of Lewis Carroll, the English writer and mathematician who wrote the Alice books
Surface Forms
Morphology
Lewis + Carroll
The sequence 'Lewis Carroll' is a proper name (a pen name) and the meanings of the two name-constituents do not compose to indicate authorship or identity; knowing the words 'Lewis' and 'Carroll' as names does not allow a learner to infer that this refers to Charles Dodgson or his works. Proper names and pen names are arbitrary and language-specific, so the MWE's referential meaning is not derivable from its parts and is therefore opaque to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Lewis Carroll is a 'pen name' chosen by the writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. One popular story says he turned his two names into Latin and then back into English, which gave the friendly name Lewis Carroll, and that is why we still know him by that name today.