The Beat Generation
A poem written by Allen Ginsberg published in 1956 set primarily in New York that starts with the sentence, "I saw the best minds..."
What is 'Howl'?
The name of the 30-year conflict in Northern Ireland that spanned from 1968-1998.
What is The Troubles?
The polarised mirrored image of dystopia and the name of Thomas More's fictional work from 1516.
What is utopia?
The year of the Easter Rising.
What is 1916?
En ordklasse, der bruges til at beskrive verber, adjektiver, adverbier og hele sætninger.
(Kan I give eksempler på disse?)
Hvad er adverbier?
The name Jack Kerouac used to represent Allen Ginsberg in his semi-autobiographical novel On the Road.
What is Carlo Marx?
The words behind the acronym NICRA.
What is the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association?
The direct translation of the Greek words δυσ and τόπος that make up the word "Dystopia".
What is 'bad' and 'place'?
An event in Ireland from 1845-1852 that resulted in a drop in the Irish population of almost 2 million.
What is the Potato Famine or Great Famine?
Et begreb, der betegner nødvendigheden af, at en sætnings verballed er bøjet korrekt efter sætningens subjekt.
(Kan I også forklare, hvilke særregler, man skal være særligt opmærksom på?)
Hvad er kongruens?
(utællelige substantiver, kollektiver, ubestemte pronominer)
The full title of the manifesto written by Jack Kerouac which explains his method on how to write Beat literature.
What is "The Essentials of Spontaneous Prose"?
The official English name of the city in which the Bloody Sunday riots took place in 1972.
What is Londonderry?
The name of a popular reality TV-show inspired by George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
What is Big Brother?
The name of the prison in Dublin where the leaders of the Easter Rising were being held until their execution.
What is Kilmainham Gaol?
En betegnelse for en sætningskonstruktion, hvor 'do' fungerer som hjælpeverbum og som tager hovedverbet i infinitiv.
(Kan I give tre eksempler på, hvad man bruger denne konstruktion til at udtrykke?)
Hvad er do-omskrivning?
(Spørgende sætninger, nægtende sætninger og emfase)
The name of the campus in New York around which Herbert Huncke, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Lucien Carr, and Kerouac met around 1944.
What is Columbia University?
The Northern Irish MP (Member of Parliament (UK)) who in 1981 died in prison while being on a hunger strike.
Who is Bobby Sands?
The author behind a 1985 feminist dystopian novel taking place in Gilead.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
The Protestant Dutch king who beat the Catholic King James II in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 and inspired the name of a famous protestant masonic order in Northern Ireland.
Who is William (III) of Orange?
En betegnelse for når sætningen angiver en handling, der er foregået i fortiden, men som har betydning for nutiden.
(Kan I forklare, hvordan denne konstruktion dannes?)
Hvad er perfektum?
(hjælpeverbet 'have' i præsens med hovedverbet bøjet i perfektum participium)
The name of the famous book store in San Francisco owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
What is City Lights Book Store?
The then British Prime Minister who helped make the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 a reality.
Who is Tony Blair?
The author behind the dystopic novel Brave New World from 1932.
Who is Aldous Huxley?
The name of the Lord Protector who ruled the UK from 1653 in the aftermath of the execution of king Charles I in 1949, and was famous for his use of brutality in his Campaign in Ireland in 1949.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
En sætningskonstruktion, der anvender 'be' som hjælpeverbum, hvor hovedverbet står i perfektum participium, og hvor subjektet ikke udfører en handling.
(Kan I give et eksempel, der viser denne konstruktion?)
Hvad er passiv-konstruktion?