Passage Identification
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
What is Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics?"
A literary device that writers use to structure a story. Includes a causal relationship between a beginning, middle, and end in which the main conflict is built to a climax and resolved in conclusion.
What is plot?
Claim, Evidence, Analysis
What are the three main components of an analytical paragraph?
What is the name of the famed fantasy author whose lesser-known work "Leaf By Niggle" appeared on the syllabus?
J.R.R. Tolkein
Bright-fire-like barberries,
Figs to fill your mouth,
Citrons from the South,
Sweet to tongue and sound to eye;
Come buy, come buy."
What is Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market?"
A critical lens concerned with the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or
undermine the economic, political, social, and
psychological oppression of women.
What is feminist criticism?
Suggestive, Debatable, Non-Qualitative
What did Sara dress up as for Halloween?
Maverick
"There was one picture in particular which bothered him. It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots."
What is the school of horror?
Repeats key terms from the claim, develops the claim further, refers directly to the evidence?
What is thoughtful analysis?
What does Sara think is the most important album ever made?
"What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye
"You're looking at a clock. It has hands, and figures arranged in a circle. The hands move. You can't tell if they move at the same rate, or if one moves faster than the other. What does than mean?"
What is Ursula LeGuin's "Vaster than Empires and More Slow?"
A fictitious narrative of often fantastic adventures
in real or imaginary distant places, especially a story of the adventures of a person marooned on a desert island.
What is a Robinsonade?
Research done on a text by other scholars, used to support your own argument - journal articles, theory books, etc.
What are secondary sources?
Which sci-fi story on the course syllabus was infamously part of an ill-fated radio broadcast that caused mass hysteria in the UK in 1938?
"War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells
"From the Son of the Merchant at school the young Prince learned the stories of foreign kingdoms. From the Son of the Kotwal he learned the adventures of the Two Genii of the Lamp. And when the rain came beating down, and the clouds covered the sky, he would sit on the threshold facing the sea, and say to his sorrowing mother: 'Tell me, mother, a story of some very far-off land.'"
What is Rabindranath Tagore's "The Kingdom of Cards?"
The radical decentering of the traditional sovereign, coherent and autonomous human in order to demonstrate how the human is always already evolving with, constituted by and constitutive of multiple forms of life and machines.
What is posthumanism?
MLA, Chicago, APA
What ten-minute song did Sara play during group work during Disco Week?
"Disco Inferno" by The Trammps