Great expectations

Exquisite corpse (from the original French term cadavre exquis, lit. 'exquisite cadaver') is a method by which a collection of words or images is assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed or by following a rule for the kind of words to be used (e.g., "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun." as in "The green duck sweetly sang the dreadful dirge.").