Global Warming
Genre Elements
Analysis
Who Said It and Where?
Its All Relative!
100
In this documentary, the UN Messenger of Peace explores the causes and effects of global warming.
What is "Before the Flood"?
100
The primary intention of cli-fi narratives towards the reader.
What is a warning to change the reader's behaviour?
100
A poetic device which describes an inanimate object as having emotions or other human qualities. The device is often used to make the reader feel empathy.
What is 'personification'?
100
Think about the shame that each of us will carry when our children and grandchildren look back and realize that we had the means of stopping this devastation, but simply lacked the political will to do se.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio? and What is the Paris Agreement Signing Ceremony?
100
The epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems.
What is the Anthropocene?
200
The year of the signing of the Paris Agreement.
When is 2016?
200
This person claims to have invented the term Cli Fi in 2007.
Who is Dan Bloom?
200
The three modes of persuasion.
What is ethos / pathos / logos?
200
As I see it, not all Cli Fi novels will be doomsday stories set in dystopian worlds, although many of them will be. Some will be hopeful and optimistic about how humans might fix the current problems we are facing and end on notes of hope.
Who is Dan Bloom? and what is "Climate Friction: An Interview with Dan Bloom".
200
A large, international group of climate scientists working for the UN to document the effects of global warming.
What is the IPCC?
300
The primary source of CO2 emissions.
What is electricity and heat production?
300
Cli Fi can take place in these times.
What is past, present, and future?
300
The repetition of the same word(s) at the beginning of two or more lines of poetry or rhetoric.
What is an 'anaphora'?
300
In the fourth age, we created deserts. Our deserts were of several kinds, but they had one thing in common: nothing grew there. Some were made of cement, some were made of various poisons, some of baked earth. We made these deserts from the desire for more money...
Who is Margaret Atwood? And what is Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet?
300
P.A.I.N.
What is "personal, abrupt, immoral, and now"?
400
When the gasses in our atmosphere trap heat and block it from escaping our planet.
What is 'the green house effect'?
400
This particular genre element makes Cli Fi very different from Sci Fi.
What is realism?
400
The six elements of the Rhetorical Pentagon.
What is sender / topic / receiver / circumstances / language and intention?
400
Now panels tilt and turbines stand / -familiar, reassuring sight-/ around the town, across the land / there will be heat and light tonight.
Who is May Harvey? And what is "The Ballad of Further Down the Line"?
400
A word often used to describe ideal ways of living in a climate friendly manner. The word means 'the ability to exist constantly'.
What is 'sustainability'?
500
Since 1880 when we first started measuring temperatures, the average temperature has risen this much.
What is 0.9 degrees?
500
The term for a body of literature that is highly valued: works that have achieved the status of classics.
What is a literary canon?
500
The term for a poem without a recognizable structure or rhyme scheme.
What is 'free verse'?
500
The environmentalists had failed to stop climate change in its infancy and failed again in its childhood, and now that it was an angry adult, clamming its fists into every country in the world, there was no stopping it.
Who is Seanan McGuire? And What is "The Myth of Rain"?
500
A young, Sweedish climate activist.
Who is Greta Thunberg?