Daredevils and Explorers
The name of the person who has become famous for climbing natural formations and buildings without ropes.
Who is Alex Honnald?
Bartholomae, Petrosky and Waite:
"Readers learn to put things together by __________." (the process of recording one's thoughts via inscription of words on paper or some other medium)
What is writing?
This ten-letter word, which starts with an "r," means something that is expected to be mutual; if I do something for you, then you'll do something for me in return.
What is reciprocal?
The word _____________ comes from the Latin word "sentire" - which means to feel.
What is "sentence"?
Eric Blair was the birth name of this famous author.
Who is George Orwell?
According to the introduction to a book written by photographer Troy Paiva, all the photographs in his book have this in common.
What is they were all taken at night?
George Orwell: "The great enemy of clear language is ____________." (the opposite of being sincere.)
What is insincerity?
This six-letter word, which begins with an "s", means something that is "lean and muscular." It may be used to describe writing, as well as bodies.
What is "sinewy"?
In "Politics and the English Language," Orwell wrote that one rule for good writing would be to do this, "If it is possible to...."
What is "If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out."
This is the part of the United States that Troy Paiva does most of his photographic explorations in.
What is the American Southwest?
________________ is the term used to describe the act of climbing cliffs or buildings without ropes.
"Free soloing" or "Free solo"
Troy Paiva: "Where most people see waste and blight, I see elegant ___________ and the weight of time." (decay, falling-apart, the reversal of evolution)
What is devolution?
This eleven-letter word which begins with "e" means "the quality of fading or disappearing."
What is evanescence?
This is the name of the piece we read this semester, which argued that "the best way to work on a difficult text is by rereading...but you can also work on the difficult text by writing."
What is the Introduction to Ways of Reading?
Drawing its name from a 1972 book and TV series by John Berger, this is the title of a collection of essays, which we have read from this semester.
What is "Ways of Reading"?
What is "urban exploration"?
(DAILY DOUBLE) Joe Moran - "Although I have some vague idea that it needs sugar, cornflour and boiled milk, I don’t know how to make a ____________." (a sweet dessert made with milk, corn starch and sugar.)
What is a blancmange?
This five-letter prefix, which begins with the letter "q," is used to express how things are partial or incomplete: a "____-scientific method is not quite a true scientific method"
What is "quasi-"?
This is the name of the piece we read this semester, which stated that "Every writer, of school age and older, is in the sentences game."
What is "How to Write The Perfect Sentence"?
The model Kate Moss once said "Nothing tastes as good as ______ ___________" - an example of a well-turned sentence, even if its message is unhealthy.
What is "skinny feels"?
In one of the first articles we read this semester, a climber ascended the outside of a building called the Urby without ropes in this US city.
What is Jersey City?
George Orwell: "Good prose is like a ___________."(thing you see through)
What is a windowpane?
This six letter word, which begins with the letter "a," is used to say "even though."
For example, "The mechanic fixed my car, ________ slower than I had hoped."
What is "albeit"?
This is the name of the piece we read this semester, which argued that "Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a pretty bad way..."
What is "Politics and the English Language"?
Troy Paiva writes about the exploration of TOADS - an acronym which stands for this.
What are Temporary, Obsolete, Abandoned, Derelict Spaces?