Sci-Fi & Dark Life
A utopia is a perfect, ideal society. This is the opposite — a society that is dangerous, oppressive, or deeply flawed.
What is a dystopia?
English has nine of these — the categories that classify every word by its function, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and this ninth one.
What are the parts of speech?
In Holes, Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn't commit. This is an example of this social concept — unfair treatment based on prejudice rather than fact.
What is injustice?
What country were the myths we read about in class from? The gods and goddesses include Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Apollo and others.
This term describes making smart, healthy choices about how much time you spend on screens and what content you consume online.
What is digital media balance?
Dark Life is set underwater in a future where the oceans are colonized. This is the genre of the novel, which explores imagined worlds and future technology.
What is science fiction?
Words like 'water,' 'music,' and 'information' are this type of noun — you cannot count them individually or make them plural.
What are uncountable nouns?
These are the six types of conflict a character can face, including person vs. person, person vs. nature, person vs. society, person vs. self, person vs. technology, and this sixth type.
What is person vs. supernatural?
Freytag's Pyramid describes plot structure in five parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and this final stage.
What is the resolution?
News or information that is deliberately false or misleading, designed to deceive readers, is called this.
What is fake news (misinformation/disinformation)?
This is the central message or 'big idea' of a story — not just what happens, but what the author wants us to learn about life.
What is a theme?
Two independent clauses joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction (like FANBOYS) form this type of sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
Saying 'the shovels sang as they hit the dirt' gives a non-human object a human quality. This figurative language device is called this.
What is personification?
A protagonist is the main character, and this is the character who opposes or creates obstacles for them.
What is an antagonist?
This term describes a personal perspective or leaning that affects how someone presents information — it can make news or sources one-sided.
What is bias?
These are the seven elements used to analyze any story: plot, setting, character, theme, conflict, point of view, and this seventh one.
What is mood (or tone / style)?
A sentence that is missing a subject or a verb and cannot stand on its own is called this.
What is a sentence fragment?
'It was raining cats and dogs' is an example of this type of figurative language — a phrase whose meaning cannot be understood from the literal words alone.
What is an idiom?
This part of a TEXAS paragraph is usually the hardest/longest part of the paragraph. It requires a lot of depth and detail - you need to be an annoying 3 year old and keep asking, "Why?"
What is A for analysis?
In a debate, your team's position — whether you are arguing for or against a topic — is called this.
What is a debate stance?
In first-person point of view, the narrator uses 'I.' In third-person limited or omniscient, the narrator uses 'he/she/they.' This is the point of view where the reader is addressed directly as 'you.'
What is second-person point of view?
The present perfect tense is formed using 'have' or 'has' plus this form of the main verb.
What is the past participle?
This figurative language device uses words that imitate the sounds they describe, like 'crunch,' 'buzz,' or 'splash.'
What is onomatopoeia?
In titles, these three capitalization rules apply: capitalize the first word, the last word, and all important words — but not short prepositions, articles, or this type of short joining word.
What are coordinating conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or)?
After an opponent makes an argument, you respond with evidence and logic to disprove or weaken their point. This type of response is called this.
What is a rebuttal?