Vocabulary
What is the definition of abate?
to decrease or diminish in force or intensity; to reduce in value or price; to lesson in size, amount, or quantity
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you."
Anadiplosis
Jeremy Bentham argues that good and evil can be measured by taking into account an action's potential _____________ and ______________.
Pain and pleasure
What part of speech is the underlined word?
“When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was”
Adjective
Which philosopher said this?
"Now all imperatives command either hypothetically or categorically. The former represent the practical necessity of a possible action as a means to something else that is willed (or at least which one might possibly will). The categorical imperative would be that which represented an action as necessary of itself without reference to another end, i.e. as objectively necessary."
Immanuel Kant
What is the definition of defame?
to ruin the good name or reputation of a person; to denigrate, disparage
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
(Alfred North Whitehead)
Chiasmus
What does Kant call the following principle?
"Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law."The categorical imperative
What part of speech is the underlined word?
“When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was”
Subordinating Conjunction
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."
Anastrophe
What is the definition of inundate?
to fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; to overwhelm, "swamp."
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
“Our transportation crisis will be solved by a bigger plane or a wider road, mental illness with a pill, poverty with a law, slums with a bulldozer, urban conflict with a gas, racism with a goodwill gesture." (Philip Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness)
Ellipsis; parallelism
Which philosopher said the following?
"By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness, (all this in the present case comes to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community: if a particular individual, then the happiness of that individual."
Jeremy Bentham
What part of speech is the underlined word?
“When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was”
Transitive Verb
When is the final (day/time)?
8:30 AM Friday, 5/31
What is the definition of amicable?
characterized by friendliness and goodwill (typically used to describe a person’s personality or the state of a relationship)
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be” (T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)
Allusion
What is the system of morality that argues for the existence of inherent duties and obligations that people must obey?
Deontology
What part of speech is the underlined word?
“When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was”
PA. (Participle)
What is the highest grossing film of 2024 (so far)?
Dune: Part Two
Worldwide: $710,644,358
Domestic: $282,144,358
What is the definition of mercurial?
Which rhetorical device is the following quote?
"I don't know whether the verse put a blessing on the fireflies or the fireflies put a blessing on the verse, or if both of them together put a blessing on trouble, but I have loved them both a good deal ever since."
Chiasmus
What system of ethics argues that human perspective and opinion shape what is good and evil and no person's perception of ethics can be more correct than another's?
Subjectivism
What part of speech is the underlined word?
“When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was”
Subordinating Conjunction
What is the name of Mr. Garza's second son born in February?
Desmond