America in War
Terms
Dystopia
Word Classes
South Africa
100
Which national figure was used to make young men enlist for the war?
Uncle Sam
100
What rhetorical appeal is based on the speaker’s trustworthiness?
Ethos
100
What term describes the systematic monitoring of people, usually by a government or organization?
Surveillance
100
The exam was difficult.
adjektiv (tillægsord)
100
Name one of the languages spoken in South Africa (apart from English).
Xhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, isiNdebele
200
On what basis did the US invade Iraq?
They suspected that they had weapons of mass destruction.
200
What storytelling technique shows past events or memories?
Flashback
200
What is the opposite of a dystopia?
Utopia
200
I left my phone in the car.
Præposition (forholdsord)
200
How many capitals does South Africa have? Name at least one.
3 (Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein)
300
President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) was the architect of which organization?
League of Nations (later United Nations)
300
What do we call the voice or person telling a story?
Narrator
300
What's the literal meaning of "dystopia"?
The bad place
300
The football players were exhausted.
verbum (udsagnsord)
300
On which island was Mandela imprisoned for 18 years?
Robben Island
400
What term was commonly used to describe what we now refer to as PTSD?
Shell shock
400
What literary technique gives hints or clues about events that will happen later in a story?
Foreshadowing
400
Name 3 characteristics that are typical of the dystopian genre.
Control
Fear
Oppression
Surveillance
Propaganda
Imagined future
Rebellion
The protagonist's search for truth
Post-apocalyptic setting
Restriction of freedom of speech
Forced conformity
Controlled information
Anti-individualism
400
The woman looked at herself in the mirror.
Pronomen (stedord)
400
Hendrik Verwoerd was also known as the architect of ...
Apartheid
500
Which American illustrator drew these propaganda cartoons?
Dr. Seuss
500
What do we call a story structure where one story is told inside another story?
Frame story
500
What is the main purpose/message of dystopian fiction?
To warn about the future and critique society.
500
Albert Einstein was very smart.
adverbium (biord)
500
Who is this man? Why was he "born a crime"?
Trevor Noah. He is mixed-race, which was illegal during apartheid.