Miscellaneous
The city Professor Dozal is from
What is El Paso?
an informal adjective meaning "very many" or "indefinitely numerous."
What is umpteen?
The author of The Sense of Style
Who is Steven Pinker?
The paragraphs of poems
What are stanzas?
The ability to imagine a scene or "see" an image when reading a piece of writing
What is the mind's eye?
Weaving your own words and style into found langauge from the internet or elsewhwere
What is patchwriting?
a peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament. An individula charcteristic or sometime s a tic like "um"
What is idiosyncrasy?
How good writing starts
What is "strong"?
The type of line ending in a poem where the thought ends where the line ends.
What is an endstopped line?
A sentence structure that repeats a phrase or word to build momentum and/or to emphasize appoint.
A famous example is MArtin Luther King's "I have a dream" speach
What is parallel syntax?
Word of the Day:
to reach the end or the final result of something
What is Culminate?
used popularly to refer to an amusing or interesting picture, video, etc. that is spread widely online. It can also refer to an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture.
What is a meme?
A style that shows the reader something in the world
What is Classic Style?
The type of line in a poem where the thought does not end where the line ends but continues onto the next line often creating double meaning
What is an enjambed line?
This social psychologist and author of The Anxious Generation makes a case that social media is a main culprit in rises in depression and anxiety in young people. Suggests no social media before 16.
Who is Jonathan Haidt?
Richhard Dawkins, the evolutinoary biologist who wrote the passage "We are goig to die and thta makes us the lucky ones" coined this word in 1974 to refer to a "unit of cultural transmission" or a "unit of imitation", an idea or behavior that spreads from person to person within a culture, much like a gene in biological evolution
What is a meme?
"to acquire by effort; earn" or "to accumulate or collect."
What is garner?
The human brain can only hold 2-3 things in the mond at once. Thus we must____
What is chunking?
SHakespeare wrote all of his poems in this rhythmic pattern that contains 10 syllables with a pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
Indicates a relationship or pattern between two variables.
Example 1: During the summer months ice cream sales and shaark attacks both trend upward.
Examaple 2: According to studies, the rise in anxiety and depression in young people happened at the same time as the rise of cell phones + social media.
What is correlation?
Fill in the blank:
Economist Thomas Sowell is quoted as saying "There are no solutions to difficult problems, there are only _____. We are often trying to find the best_____when trying to adrress any problem or contentious issue.
What are tradeoffs?
broadly means “of or relating to clothes,” but it often more specifically means “of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes.”
What is Sartorial?
The difficulty in explaining something that you know so well, that you've forgottten what it's like not to know it.
What is The Curse of Knowledge?
A poem by W.H. Auden that contains the line "He was my North, my South, my East and West"
What is "Funeral Blues" or "Stop All the Clocks"?
What the the acronyms GPT's are GPT's stands for
What is Generative pre trained transformers and General purpose technologies?