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Flash Fiction
Creativity
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General English Knowledge
100
When you begin a story in the middle of the action.
What is in medias res?
100
The ability to read, write and use other dominant symbol systems in society.
What is literacy?
100
The name of the American publisher of comic books and related media. Was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009.
What is Marvel Comics?
100
A word used to describe an action, a state, or occurrence.
What is a verb?
200
When you finish a story/movie in an unexpected or shocking way.
What is a twist ending?
200
The two topics that Ken Robinson wanted to discuss in his TED Talk.
What are education and creativity?
200
Two famous people who died in early 2016, both aged 69.
Who are: David Bowie, Alan Rickman
200
A grammatical category that expresses time reference.
What is tense?
300
Language that uses words or expressions in a non-literal sense. Used to make stories feel more alive.
What is figurative language?
300
The hierarchy Ken Robinson claims that every education system has.
What is: mathematics --> languages --> humanities --> the arts?
300
The name of Kanye West's new album.
What is The Life of Pablo?
300
For example: Ireland, Malta, Ghana, Jamaica, Grenada, and Bahamas.
What are countries where English is the official language?
400
A type of figurative language which gives human qualities to animals, objects or ideas.
What is personification?
400
The hierarchy subjects within the arts.
What is art and music --> drama and dance?
400
The name of the best selling album of 2015.
What is 25?
400
The country with the largest number of second-language speakers of English in the world.
What is India?
500
The Chinese name for flash fiction, connected to the short amount of time it takes to read it.
What is smoke long story?
500
The three things Robinson claims we know about intelligence.
What is diverse, dynamic, distinct?
500
The name of at least one of the movies nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.
What are: The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max:Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, Room or Spotlight?
500
Another name for "common language" or a language that is spoken when people do not share a native language. English is an example of this.
What is lingua franca?