4-Letter Words
Qualified Quotables
Texts in Translation
Signs and Signifiers
Potpourri
100

This title is often given to Tang Sanzang.

Monk

100

This identifier must be included in an in-text citation after any quote.

Page number

100

"They must die too. And since they must, the one who gave them life must be the one to end it."

Medea

100

In 2024, her death was signified using shadows.

The Princess (Creon's daughter)

100

This mischievous troublemaker was awakened to emptiness.

Sun Wukong

200

This literary form might use line breaks to create beauty.

Poem

200

Even while enabling creative outputs, this source is anything but credible.

Artificial Intelligence

200

"What is it then, which can conduct us honourably out of life, and accompany us in our future progress? Philosophy alone."

The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius  

200

This 20th-century figure saw himself as wreaking havoc in “Heaven.”

Mao Zedong

200

To create… in Ancient Greek.

Poiseis

300

 This dynasty’s literary milieu is reflected in Journey to the West.

Ming

300

This source can be determined by the citation: Author, A. (date). Title. Publisher.

Book

300

"People under heaven see beauty in what they call 'beauty.' That way they know of the 'ugly.'"

The Living Dao: The Art and Way of Living a Rich & Truthful Life (The Daodejing of Laozi)

300

This character finds "quick bright things come to confusion" after falling asleep in the woods.

Lysander

300

"When it comes to entirely new regimes where a new ruler has seized the state, the ease or difficulty of his staying in [this] will be in proportion to his abilities or failings."

Power

400

This author has been known to create treatises about humankind.

Pope

400

The credibility of this text is determined by peer review.

Scholarly Source

400

“No falsehood shall pass these lips of mine. To harm your heart, or cause you pain's cruel sign.”

"Never Gonna Give You Up" 

400

This ancient theatrical convention was used to signify divine intervention.

Deus ex machina

400

This form of self-assessment is interested in thinking about the process of thinking.

Metacognitive Analysis

500

This component of Material Semiotics offers original meaning.

Text

500

When citing Medea, this contributor is listed back-to-front and front-to-back.

Robin Robertson

500

"Thought, on the other hand, is found where something is proved to be, or not to be, or a general maxim is enunciated."

The Poetics of Aristotle

500

The author's intended symbolism behind, "the box of light that had been a tree.."

Nothing (as far as we know, AI can have no intent).

500

This 19th-century artist broke tradition to embody the sublime.

 J.M.W. Turner