It's the most wonderful time of the year 

With the kids jingle belling 

And everyone telling you "Be of good cheer" 

It's the most wonderful time of the year 

It's the hap-happiest season of all 

With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings 

When friends come to call 

It's the hap- happiest season of all 

There'll be parties for hosting 

Marshmallows(棉花糖) for toasting 

And caroling out in the snow 

There'll be scary ghost stories 

And tales of the glories of 

Christmases long, long ago

 "Puss in Boots"
 

"Master Cat; or, The Booted Cat" (early French: Le Maître Chat, ou Le Chat Botté), commonly known in English as "Puss in Boots", is a French literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.

 

imaginary  (adj.)  想像中的; 虛構的; 幻想的
not real, but produced from pictures or ideas in your mind 

 

Ogre:
Famous examples of ogres in folklore include the ogre in "Puss in Boots" and the ogre in "Hop-o'-My-Thumb"; and in fiction, Shrek and Fiona from "Shrek". Other characters sometimes described as ogres include the title character from "Bluebeard", the Beast from "Beauty and the Beast", Grendel from "Beowulf", Polyphemus the Cyclops from Homer's Odyssey, the cyclops in "Sinbad the Sailor", and the oni of Japanese folklore.

 

fable:
Fable is a literary genre. A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities such as verbal communication), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.

 

parable:
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.
e.g. The Return of the Prodigal Son 浪子回頭
 

 

allegory: 
Allegory is a literary device in which characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts. Allegory has been used widely throughout the histories of all forms of art; a major reason for this is its immense power to illustrate complex ideas and concepts in ways that are easily digestible and tangible to its viewers, readers, or listeners. An allegory conveys its hidden message through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric; a rhetorical allegory is a demonstrative form of representation conveying meaning other than the words that are spoken. 
e.g. The Faerie Queene-->暗示對伊利莎白的崇敬
 

paradox literature-->promoting critical thinking
e.g. Othello(四大悲劇之一): There are old fond paradoxes to make fools laughing in the al(酒)ehouse.

 

薑汁汽水: gingerable
小酒館: traven

 

nursery rhyme-->songs for children
lullaby搖籃曲