literature
An implied comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share a common characteristic.
What is a metaphor?
Unstructured, voluntary, child-initiated activity that allows children to develop their imaginations while exploring and experiencing the world around them.
What is free play?
A piece of media, which is spread through social media platforms, combines an image macros with a concept or catchphrase.
What is an Internet meme?
The process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
What is recycling?
The incumbent president who tweeted that, “We need the Wall more than ever!” after markets tumbled amid growing uncertainty because of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Who is Donald Trump?
The attribution of human characteristics, emotions and behaviour to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
Non-compulsory post-secondary education, which follows the completion of high school, secondary school or junior college.
What is tertiary education?
The K-pop group who was recognised as one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world for 2019.
What is BTS?
The study of waste products produced by a population of people in order to learn about that population's activities, in areas such as waste disposal and food consumption.
What is garbology?
The potential Democrat candidate who has been labelled a communist.
Who is Bernie Sanders?
The technique of showing things that reveal the personality of the character.
What is indirect characterisation?
The practice of educating students with special needs to allow them to achieve a higher level of personal self-sufficiency and success in school and in their communities.
What is special education?
A genre of television programming that documents supposedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unknown individuals rather than professional actors.
What is reality TV?
The adoption of technologies such as hybridised seeds and synthetic fertilizers between 1950 and the late 1960s to increase agricultural production worldwide.
What is the Green Revolution?
The Canadian prime minister whose wife has just tested positive for Covid-19.
Who is Justin Trudeau?
The story is being told by a voice who shows they know more than the characters in the story – the narrator is all knowing.
What is third-person omniscient narration?
A model, in which students with special needs spend most or all of their time with non-special (general education) needs students.
What is inclusive education?
Denoting marathon-viewing, the word was a runner-up to "selfie" for the Oxford English Dictionary's 2013 word of the year.
What is "binge-watching"?
The total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by our actions and activities.
The organisation that declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, acknowledging that the virus will likely spread to all countries on the globe.
What is the World Health Organisation?
A genre of speculative fiction that typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
What is science fiction?
The movement of individuals, families, or groups up or down the social ladder in a society, such as moving from low-income to middle class.
What is social mobility?
For inner-city New York kids, participating in it became a way of getting them out of gang life, drugs and violence.
What is hip hop culture?
A collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations, which are designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all".
What is the Sustainable Development Goals?
The former US army analyst who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks in 2010.
Who is Chelsea Manning?