Miscellaneous
The meaning of the Latin phrase "Veritas"
What is truth?
The ability to imagine or "see" something you are reading.
What is "Mind's Eye"?
This storytelling technique has a character (or characters begin in one place, go through a harrowing ordeal, and then end in their original place as a changed person. A common trope exemplified in many Novels and Major Motion Pictures (Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Harry Potter).
What is the Heroes Journey?
This kind of poetic line ends where the thought ends (ends with the ending of the thought). Example:
"I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong."
What is an endstopped line?
The meaning of the Greek word "Telos"
What is ultimate aim or goal?
This Evolutionary Biologist is the author of Unweaving the Rainbow which begins: "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones." He also coined the word "meme" in 1974.
Who is Richard Dawkins?
Establishing the time period or time frame, histories, background of characters, establishing place
What is setting the scene?
The kind of poetic line where the though does not end where the line ends but the thought continues on to the next line. Cutting a line or sentence to emphasize a particular part of the phrasing or syntax.
Example:
from the wooden belly. This one’s strings
are broken. And another, open,
is a mouth. I want to kiss
them as I hurt to be kissed, ruin
What is an Enjambed line?
Astronomer and Physicist Galileo Galilei was persecuted (put in jail) for believing what? (hint: it is now an agreed upon fact)
What is, the earth revolves around the Sun?
According to Steven Pinker, this is how good writing should start.
What is "good writing starts strong, not with a cliche"
Goal + Obstacle =_______
What is Drama?
A method of translating based on the sound of a language into English. Language Machine 1.
What is a homophonic translation?
Every med school graduate pledges this upon graduation.
What is The Hippocratic Oath?
According to Steven Pinker, this is how one develops a "writerly ear".
What is, reading widely?
A rhetorical move often used by comedians. An inside joke between comedian and audience that can also be employed in storytelling.
What is the callback?
Name the title of the poem (or author) of this famous line: "He was my North, My South, My East and West"
What is Funeral Blues? or Who is W.H. Auden?
This professional medical value/ethic, grants patients the right to make their own decisions and act on their own behalf.
What is Autonomy?
One of the three reasons that good writing style still matters.
What is "trust", or, "adds beauty to the world", or, "ensures the writer gets their message across"
Repetition of phrasing for effect; showing that two ideas have the same or similar importance. A famous example is MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is Parallel Syntax or Parallel Structure?
The title of Professor Dozal's book of poetry published by Penguin Random House in 2023.
What is The Border Simulator?