Post-Modern Terms
Money whose only value is based on people's faith in the government which issues it.
Fiat currency
The time, place, and environment where a story occurs.
Setting
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Shakespeare
What is the biggest rock in the whole entire world called?
Uluru
And I say Hey- Hey!
What a wonderful kind of day
If we could learn to work and play,
And get along with each other.
Arthur
state where consciousness cannot tell the difference between actual reality and a simulation
Hyperreality
The perspective (visual, interpretive, bias, etc.) a text takes when presenting its plot and narrative.
Point of view
He kept the others apprised on the petition for another investigation and how the statement of apology from the government was coming along. A blinking digital widget kept track of the fund-raising for the proposed memorial. E-mail Big John the story of your Nickel days and he’d post it with your picture. Sharing a link with your family was a way of saying, This is where I was made. An explanation and an apology.
Whitehead
What's the loudest animal?
Sperm Whale
Barnacles! Kwazi! Peso!
Octonauts
...is a philosophical concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven.
Language Games
a salient abstract idea that emerges from a literary work’s treatment of its subject-matter; or a topic recurring in a number or literary works”
Theme
“To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen.”
Miri Yu
What is the loudest insect?
Green grocer cicada
Who goes into the night
So they can save the day?
Who are these heroes
To show you the way?
...
Cause bedtime...is the right time...to fight crime...
PJ Masks
the characters in the story acknowledge the presence of the audience (or, generally, are aware of being in a story).
Breaking the fourth wall
A literary mode that attempts to convert abstract concepts, values, beliefs, or historical events into characters or other tangible elements in a narrative
Allegory
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
Chaucer
What two planets rotate the opposite way that Earth does?
Venus and Uranus
They're two, they're four, they're six, they're eight
Shunting trucks and hauling freight
Red and green and brown and blue
They're the Really Useful Crew
All with different roles to play
Round Tidmouth Sheds or far away
Down the hills and round the bends
_______ and his friends
Thomas the Tank Engine
"A copy without an original"
Hint: Also a D&D spell
Simulacrum
A narrative perspective that typically addresses that audience using “you.” This mode can help authors address readers and invest them in the story.
Second person
Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
"Their colour is a diabolic die."
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.
Phillis Wheatley
Who Would Win? Arctic Fox vs Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl
They'll use their best detective skills
Combine their science smarts
And they'll put their heads together 'cause they're brave and clever
It's time to ______ save the day
Spidey and His Amazing Friends