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46 Cards in this Set
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Who wrote Second Variety?
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Phillip K Dick
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What year was 'Second Variety' written?
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1953
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Who wrote 'Covehithe'?
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China Mieville
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What year was 'Covehithe' written?
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2011
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Who wrote 'A Martian Sends a Postcard Home'?
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Craig Raine
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What year was 'A Martian Sends a Postcard Home' written?
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1979
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Who wrote 'War of the Worlds'?
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H.G. Wells
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What year was 'War of the Worlds' written?
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1898
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Who wrote 'Repent Harlequin! Said the TIcktockman'?
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Harlan Ellison
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What year was 'Repent Harlequin' written?
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1965
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Who wrote 'The One who Walk away from Omelas'?
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Ursula Le Guin
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What year was 'The Ones who Walk away from Omelas' written?
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1973
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Who wrote 'This is Why I'll Never be an Adult'?
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Allie Brosh
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Who wrote 'Watchmen'?
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Allan Moore
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What year was 'Watchmen' written?
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1986
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Who wrote 'Bridget Jones' Diary'?
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Helen Fielding
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What year was 'Bridget Jones Diary' written?
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1996
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What is Utopia?
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- a community possessing highly desirable with near perfect qualities
- if you do not fit the norm there is a sinister element |
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What is Dystopia?
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- a community that is in some way undesirable and frightening
- often reflects our own world but it the future |
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Define poetic justice
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- the rewarding of virtue and punishment of vice, often in an ironic manner
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When was Science Fiction created?
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1800s
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What is hard science fiction
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- a category of science fiction that refers to stories with an emphasis on scientific accuracy
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What is soft science fiction
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- a category of science fiction that refers to stories that lack scientific focus
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1930s science fiction categories
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- Space Opera
- Colonial adventure - Super Hero comics - Monster movies |
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What is Space Opera?
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- a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes romantic or melodramatic adventure set in outspace
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What is colonial adventure?
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- a subgenre of science fiction that follows the formula of a white community interacting with aliens and the white man must teach them how to not be savage
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Who was John W. Campbell?
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- an American science fiction writer and editor
- credited with shaping the Golden Age of Science Fiction - loved colonial fiction |
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1950s sci-fi characteristics
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- emphasis on consumerism
- fear of communism, bad guys are Russian or Chinese - anxiety of war |
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60s and 70s sci-fi characteristics
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- Metafictional texts (questions the relationship between fiction and reality)
- Speculative fiction (notion of 'what if' scenario) |
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80s sci-fi characteristics
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- blockbuster movies
- television series |
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80s-beyond sci-fi characteristics
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- environmental disaster
- dystopian fiction |
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What is juxtaposition?
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two things being seen or placed close together to highlight contrast between the two and compare them
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When does the term 'Romance' first emerge?
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12th century renaissance
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Archetypes in Romance genre
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- Jaloux
- Amant - Malmariee - Lausengiers |
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Define 'jaloux'
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- jealous older husband that locks up wife in fear of cheating
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Themes in romance
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- battle of the sexes
- love is suffering - ritual death - similar stock characters as comedy |
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Define 'love is suffering'
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- theme in romance; "I can't eat, I can't sleep"
- found in love poetry |
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Define 'Courtly Love'
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a conception of expressing love in a secret relationship, often not practiced between husband and wife
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Subcategories of Romance
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- medieval romance
- series - armed forces - romantic suspense - chick lit - romantic comedy |
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Define 'Chick-Lit'
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a genre of fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humorously or lightheartedly
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Define 'Metafiction'
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a term describing fictional writing that consciously draws attention to the fact that it is fiction by posing questions about the relationship between fiction and reality, usually using irony to do so
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What is the 'Buffoon'?
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comedic character that helps the eiron, a best friend figure
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What is the 'Churl'?
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character that doesn't exactly know what is going on, naive
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Define 'Deus Ex Machina'
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an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation
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Define 'Double Entendre'
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a phrase that has two different meanings or could be interpreted in two different ways
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Define 'mono-sensory'
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refers to when a comic evokes the senses. (movement, sound, smells)
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