Sub Genres
Punk'd
Literary Terms
Classic Sci-Fi Elements
OPL
100

These stories focus on hidden abilities or secret knowledge. They can be about things like psychic abilities or witchcraft. 

What is Supernatural Fiction?

100

These stories incorporate steam-powered machinery with modern technology. 

What is Steam Punk? 

100

A note added by way of comment or explanation in the margins of a text. 

What is an annotation? 

100

This classic Sci-Fi element involves a bit of mind-reading. 

What is telepathy?

100

This OPL event includes a school wide fashion show. 

What is the Trashion Show?

200

These stories are often satirical and focus on ideal or perfect societies. 

What is Utopian Fiction?

200

These stories focus on less advanced broken-down societies juxtaposed with advanced technology.

What is Cyber Punk? 

200

A literary device that refers to the use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader. Writers appeal to a reader’s senses of sight, taste, smell, touch, and sound, as well as their internal emotions and feelings.


What is imagery?

200

This classic Sci-Fi element involves instantaneous movement from one place to another. 

What is Teleportation?

200

Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot are an example of this OPL principle. 



What is Zero Waste? 

300

These stories often focus on problematic societies with oppression, controlling governments, and poverty.

What is Dystopian Fiction? 

300

This refers to an art movement that broadly envisions how the future might look if we lived in harmony with nature and technology in a sustainable and egalitarian world.

What is Solarpunk?

300

This compares two things that share one characteristic but aren't alike otherwise (WITHOUT using “like” or “as.”)

What is a metaphor?

300

Eckels utilizes this in "Sound of Thunder". 

What is Time Travel? 

300

A compostable toliet is an example of this principle. 

What is sustainable water? 

400

These stories blend Western and Science Fiction genres. 

What is Space Western? 

400

This is a culture popular among young people, especially in the late 1970s, involving opposition to authority expressed through shocking behavior, clothes, and hair, and fast, loud music. 

What is Punk? 

400

A reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.

What is an allusion? 

400

Black Panther's Shuri - Wakanda’s leading scientist and designer of Black Panther’s combat gear uses this sci fi element. 

What is Speculative Technology? 

400

Mx. Lannon has a cat named after this pop star. 

What is Britney Spears? 

500

These stories take Sci-Fi elements and blend them with topics like relationships, romance, and adventure. 

What is Space Opera? 

500

This movement combines diesel-based technology with the aesthetics and cultural mindset of the 1920s-1950s. There’s a heavy sense of brewing war, gray morality, and fighting the impossible.

What is Dieselpunk?

500

This is a literary technique writers use to add/give human qualities to non-human things. It helps the reader create a picture in their mind.



What is Personification?

500

H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" includes this classic Sci-Fi element.  

What are aliens? 

500

This British organization designed the 10 OPL Principles. 

What is Bioregional?