Names
This is where the article Interstellar: Good Space Film, Bad Climate-Change Parable was published.
Bonus: 300 with correct answer
What is The Atlantic?
These are the 'substances' that trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere and contribute to global warming.
What are greenhouse gases?
This is the rhetorical device in DiCaprios speech here:
"For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse."
Bonus: 300 with correct answer
What is a metaphor?
These are examples of framing and composition when you analyze film (key terms, name at least three)
What are close-up, extreme close-up, medium shot, long shot, extreme long shot (establishing shot) and horizontal lines, vertical lines, diagonal lines, rule-of thirds
These are wordclasses from this sentence:
"is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you"
(name at least three different)
What are
nouns (e.g. moment, tree, arms)
verbs (e.g. is, unloose)
adjectives (same, soft)
article (the)
pronouns (e.g. their, you)
This is the author of the novel The Drowned World
Who was J. D: Ballard?
These are the two ways that you pronounce this word
What is /ˈænθrəpəsiːn/ or /ænˈθrɒpəsiːn/ ?
This is the primary mode of appeal DiCaprio uses in his speech here: “Droughts are intensifying, our oceans are acidifying, ... melting at unprecedented rates.”
What is logos?
These are examples of camera angles and camera movement when you analyze film (key terms, name at least three)
What are low angle shot, eye-level shot, high angle shot and
static, pan, tilt, handheld, point-of-view
This is the verb tense (tiden) of the verb (udsagnsleddet) in this sentence: (in Danish)
"Mankind has changed the planet"
What is present perfect (førnutid)?
This is the director of the movie Interstellar
Who is Christoffer Nolan?
These are synonyms for 'climate change' (name at least 4)
What is climate crisis, climare emergency, climate shift, global warming, climate disaster, climate urgency...
This is the primary mode of appeal DiCaprio uses in his speech here: "We beg of you to face it with courage and honesty"
What is pathos?
These are the types of sounds that can be heard in a movie only by the audience of the movie (and not the characters)
Bonus: double points if can name the kind of sound that can be heard, which contrasts strongly with the image that you see on screen.
What is non-diegetic sound?
And contrapuntal sound
This is the number of different nouns in this quote from Interstellar:
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt,”
What is the number 4?
This is the name of the actor who played Coop in Interstellar
Who is Matthew McConaughey?
The kind of 'fear' you can develop, when there is a lot of talk of doom and climate disaster in the media
What is climate anxiety?
This is the primary mode of appeal DiCaprio uses in his speech here:
“I stand before you not as an expert, but as a concerned citizen.”
What is ethos?
Interstellar: This is the name of the son of Tom Cooper, who dies when he is a baby.
Bonus: double point with correct answer
Who was Jesse?
This is the number of different verbs in this quote from the article about Interstellar:
In the world of Interstellar, mankind can either leave the planet behind, or it can stay here and die.
Bonus: 400 extra if you can name main verbs (hovedverber) and auxiliary verbs (hjælpeverber)
What is the number 4?
Main verbs: leave, stay, die
auxiliary verb: can
This is author of the poem The Moment
Bonus: 500 extra if you can name another text, by the author, that we have read
Who is Margaret Atwood?
And The Handmaid's Tale
This is the method of analysis we apply when we categorise words from a text into two fields that have different connotations/themes
What are semantic fields?
This is the rhetorical device used by DiCaprio in his speech here:
“We need to put a price tag on carbon emissions, and eliminate government subsidies for all oil, coal, and gas companies.
We need to end the free ride that industrial polluters have been given...”
Bonus: 500 extra for more specific term (of the rhetorical device)
What is 'repetition' - or anaphora(repetition of phrases or words in the beginning of following sentences.)
This is the name of the poet, that Dr. Brand recites to the atronauts again and again
"Do not go gentle into that good night"
Who was Dylan Thomas
These are the word classes of all the words in the sentence (except the one in italics):
Hollywood has yet to adequately address the issue of climate change
Hollywood =
has =
yet =
adequately =
adress =
the =
issue =
of =
climate change =
What is:
Hollywood = (Proper) noun
has = verb
yet = adverb
adequately = adverb
adress = verb
the = article
issue = noun
of = preposition
climate change = (compund noun)