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This singer's "Eras Tour" was the first concert film to premiere on a streaming service (Disney+).
Who is Taylor Swift?
English playwright known as " The Bard of Avon" who wrote Hamlet and more than 154 sonnets.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This sentence contains the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.
What is the topic sentence?
It is the most common phoneme in the English language.
What is the schwa?
A translation theory that prioritizes purpose and audience.
What is Skopos Theory?
This social media platform, known for short videos, was the subject of a potential U.S. ban in April 2024.
What is TikTok?
Written by John Steinbeck in 1937, this novella follows George and Lennie during the Great Depression.
What is Of Mice and Men?
The specific group of people the speaker intends to reach and persuade.
What is the audience?
It refers to the emphasis placed on a specific syllable within a word or a specific word within a sentence.
What is stress?
Type of interpretation used in UN conferences.
What is simultaneous interpretation?
This actor, who plays Ken in the "Barbie" movie, hosted the 2024 Oscars.
Who is Ryan Gosling?
This Old English epic poem tells the story of a hero who defeats Grendel, its mother, and a dragon.
What is Beowulf?
In this type of essay, the writer takes a stand for or against a controversial topic.
What is an argumentative essay?
It is the smooth connection between the sound at the end of one word and the sound at the beginning of the next word when we speak.
What is linking?
Translation method used in audiovisual texts that reflects spoken words in written form.
What is subtitling?
This beloved Stranger Things character, known for his taste in heavy metal and friendship with Dustin, was killed by Vecna in Season 4.
Who is Eddie Munson?
Kate Chopin's short story about Louise Mallard's reaction to her husband's "death."
What is The Story of an Hour?
This method persuades by tapping into the audience's feelings, encouraging them to side with the speaker or take a specific action.
What is pathos?
It describes how the speech organs (tongue, lips, teeth, palate) manipulate the flow of air to produce different consonant sounds.
What is manner of articulation?
A strategy that changes the grammatical category of a word.
What is transposition?
This hip-hop group holds the record for the most expensive music album in history.
Who is the Wu-Tang Clan?
Nicknamed the "laureate of American lowlife," this writer drew on his experiences with alcoholism, women, and gritty urban life.
Who is Charles Bukowski?
This common fallacy attacks the person making the argument instead of the argument itself.
What is Ad Hominem?
It is one of the specific, slightly different ways that a phoneme is actually pronounced in different contexts.
What is an allophone?
The legal system that takes laws and norms as basis to determine the legality of an act.
What is Civil Law?