Grammar
Et begreb, der betegner nødvendigheden af, at en sætnings verballed er bøjet korrekt efter sætningens subjekt.
Hvad er kongruens?
This person was Joe Biden's vice president when he served as the 46th president of the US.
Who is Kamala Harris?
The polarised mirrored image of dystopia and the name of Thomas More's fictional work from 1516
What is utopia?
In this country, 13 colonies declared their independence from the British empire with a document containing the sentence "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What are the United States of America?
The title of a famous narrative poem written in 1842 by Robert Browning set in a castle where the narrator and a guest are looking at a painting.
What is "My Last Duchess"?
En ordklasse, der bruges til at beskrive verber, adjektiver, adverbier og hele sætninger.
Hvad er et adverbium?
A term describing a state that can statistically be won by both presidential candidates in a US presidential election.
What is a swing state or battleground state?
The time in which most dystopian novels are placed.
What is (a not so distant) future?
In 1934, this British author wrote the book "Burmese Days" based on the time when he was stationed as a police officer under the British raj.
Who is George Orwell (or Eric Arthur Blair)?
The title of the 1764 novel written by Horace Walpole, typically considered the first gothic novel.
What is The Castle of Otranto?
En betegnelse for når sætningen angiver en handling, der er foregået i fortiden, men som har betydning for nutiden.
Hvad er perfektum?
The two symbols representing the two main parties in US politics.
What are a donkey or jackass (Democrats) and an elephant (Republicans)
The author behind a 1985 feminist dystopian novel taking place in Gilead.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
The author of both the Jungle Book and the poem The White Man's Burden.
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
The author of the 1897 gothic novel, Dracula.
Who is Bram Stoker?
En betegnelse for en sætningskonstruktion, hvor 'do' fungerer som hjælpeverbum og som tager hovedverbet i infinitiv.
Hvad er do-omskrivning?
The three branches of government in US politics.
What are the executive, legislative and judicial branches?
The name of a popular reality TV-show inspired by George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
What is Big Brother?
A South African female author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991.
Who is Nadine Gordimer?
Often used in gothic novels, this literary device is defined as a recurring element—such as an image, symbol, or phrase—that reinforces and develops a story’s theme.
What is a motif?
En sætningskonstruktion, der anvender 'be' som hjælpeverbum, hvor hovedverbet står i perfektum participium, og hvor subjektet ikke udfører en handling.
Hvad er passivkonstruktion?
A term for a group of people in USA formed with the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president in the presidential election.
What is the electoral college?
The direct translation of the Greek words δυσ and τόπος that make up the word "Dystopia".
What is 'bad' and 'place'?
A metaphorical phrase coined to express the reach of the British empire at its height in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is "The sun never sets on the British Empire"?
The gothic genre is considered a subgenre of this literary period partly because they both are considered reactions against the enlightenment and industrialisation.
What is the romantic period?