"I'll just ask AI"
"I'm just gonna pretend they don't exist"
"O Romeo, Romeo!"
"You're ugly, and that's why you're wrong"
Animals and Nuclear Technology
100

When George finds Lydia's scarf and his wallet,  chewed and covered in blood, it is an example of this literary device.

What is foreshadowing?

100

This is the name of the water-meadow that the processions are heading towards.

What are the Green Fields?

100

Sonnets, epics, blank verse, acrostics, and concrete all have this in common.

What is a poetic form?
100

It's ok to cheat on an exam because everybody else does it!

What is bandwagon appeal?

100

The chimpanzee in the center of the page surrounded by a rusted metal container is an example of this visual persuasion technique.

What is framing?

200

This is what Peter does when George first confronts the children about the veldt inside of the nursery.

What is deny the image of the veldt?

200

After they've seen the child suffering in the broom closet, the children's "tears at the bitter injustice dry" when they begin to do this.

What is to perceive the terrible justice of reality and accept it?

200

This is what you call a poetic form that breaks away from your expectations as a reader.

What is subversion?

200

If we lower the drinking age to 18 in the United States, soon we'll have elementary school kids drinking in bars with their parents.

What is slippery slope fallacy?

200

The image of the mushroom cloud from Carl Sagan’s “On Nuclear Disarmament” is shown with reds and oranges, which could be evoke a sense of danger within a person. This is an example of this visual persuasion technique.

What is color psychology?

300

The repetition of the lions feeding, the family eating at the dinner table, and the realization that "too much of anything isn't good for anyone" is an example of this literary device.

What is a motif?

300

This is the feeling the people of Omelas have despite the "joy built upon successful slaughter" being "fearful and trivial".

What is the sense of victory?
300

This is the metaphor used by Edna St. Vincent Millay when describing the vulnerability and fragility of love.

What is the "wide blossom which the wind assails" and "the great tide that treads the shifting shore"?

300

This is my cat, Natty. She really likes to sit on my couch. Everyone named Natty likes to sit on my couch.

What is non sequitor?

300

This is the character Boemeke uses to make her speech more approachable and personable to audience members.

Who is Isodope?

400

This is what George thinks the lions are feeding on when he and Lydia first see the lions in the nursery.

What is "a zebra or a baby giraffe"?
400

This is how the narrator describes the place that the people who walk away from Omelas go to.

What is "a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness."?

400

In this quatrain of a sonnet, it is conventional for the poet to further explain their problem/argument that was previously introduced.

What is the second quatrain?

400

A: "Would you like to go to the movies with me this weekend?"
B: "Sorry, I have to study for my chemistry quiz on Monday."
A: "So you don't want to be friends with me."

What is straw man fallacy?

400

This is the purpose of Steward Brand's TED Talk, "The Dawn of De-Extinction".

What is to persuade the audience that humanity has a moral obligation and possesses the technology to reverse extinction?

500

This is what the psychologist says the nursery will help the children work through in a healthful way

What is neuroses?

500

The treason of the artist is to refuse this trait of evil and this terrible aspect of pain.

What is banality and boredom?

500

This is how Shakespeare describes the condition of love between "true minds".

What is "admit impediments"?

500

A doctor recommends that a patient stop drinking while taking a new medication, but the patient dismisses this advice because he saw the doctor get a drink with his colleagues last week.

What is ad hominem fallacy?

500

This is the occasion that prompted Boemeke to think about the power of nuclear technology and speak about it at a TED conference.

What is a tweet written by her favorite scientist, Dr. Carolyn Porco?

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