Core concepts in English
It is another word for the main character in a story.
What is protagonist?
It is what Ethos, Pathos and Logos are called combined.
What is "forms of appeal" (modes of persuasion)?
This is the opposite of dystopia.
What is Utopia?
It is what the metro or subway is called in Great Britain.
What is the underground?
It is the name of the author who made minimalistic writing famous.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
It is the word we use to describe the environment in a story.
What is setting?
It is the figure of speech where you repeat the first part of a sentence.
What is anaphora?
It is the main character is The Hunger Games.
What is Katniss Everdeen?
It is what Britons call French fries.
What is Chips?
It is the war that Hemingway fought in as a young soldier.
What is World War l?
It is the person telling the story while knowing every detail, thought and feeling in the story.
What is an omniscient narrator?
It is the three types of intentions/purposes that a speech can have.
What is to persuade, to inform, or to delight?
This is the type of control that Government use in dystopian stories.
What is bureaucratic control?
It is what Britons call an elevator.
What is Lift?
It is the idea Hemingway used when writing in a minimalistic way suggesting that he knows more than he lets on.
What is the iceberg theory?
It is the term we use to describe a character who changes throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
It is what we call the model when we look at claims, warrants and data/grounds.
What is Toulmin’s argument model?
It is through this system of communication that the Government in “1984” tries to oppress and control the thoughts of its people.
What is language and dictionary?
It is what an American would call it, when a Briton says peckish.
What is hungry?
It is what people called people like Hemingway who drifted aimlessly through Europe after The Great War.
What is the lost generation?
It is the kind of language used every day in conversations but not in formal speech or writing.
What is colloquial language?
It is all the names of the three speakers we have read speeches from.
Who are Emma Watson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Barack Obama?
It is the name of the writer of “Harrison Bergeron” who is famous for writing many dystopias.
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
It is what you look for in Great Britain instead of the pharmacy to buy e.g. pain-killers.
What is the chemist’s?
It is the name of a stereotypical main character from most of Hemingway’s stories.
What is the code hero?