All of the Vocab terms

Question 1

Science Fiction

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The literature of cognitive estrangement

Question 2

Cognitive

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Having to do with thinking, and especially critical thought

Question 3

Estrangement

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Becoming or making strange and unfamiliar

Question 4

Cognitive estrangment

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• Making something strange or unfamiliear but in a logically consistent way
• Making something strange or unfamiliar, so that we are forcred to think about it critically

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Monster

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Something that doesn’t conform to societal norms
- Frankenstein’s creation
- We can’t give it a name or label it so it is something that isn’t normal

Question 6

Prometheus

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Deity from greek mythology who gave the gift of fire to humans and was punished
- Example: Victor is similar to prometheus as he tries to give the gift of overcoming death and is punished for it through the monster’s actions

Question 7

Frame narrative

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A story in which another story is enclosed or embedded as a ‘tale within the tale’
- Reminds us that we are removed from the events of the main narrative; we cannot take its truth or accuracy for granted
- Example: Victor’s story of Frankenstein told through Robert Walton’s letters to his sister Margaret

Question 8

Myth of Terrus Nulius

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The idea that the rest of the globe, outside Europe, is made up primarily of uninhabited and untouched land
- Reason why Walton explores the arctic

Question 9

Novel

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• Over 100 pages
• written in prose language (not poetry)
• Contain a unified plot that extends from beginning to end

Question 10

Bildungsroman

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• German word for novel of formation or novel of personal development
• a ‘coming of age’ genre which tells a story of someone who learns lessons on the way to becoming a more thoughtful, greater, grounded character.
• Example: Elizabeth is a failed version of this as she died before becoming an adult
• Cynthia could be a successful bildungsroman

Question 11

Genre

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Category used to differentiate one type of literary wrting from another

Question 12

Romance

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A fictional story that defamiliarizes ordinary life, taking the reader into the realm of extraordinary or fantastical

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Utopia

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A perfect place that does not exist

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Dystopia

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Inverse of a utopia, an imagined world in which the worst of tendencies are present

Question 15

Telos

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endpoint, aim, goal (greek)

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Teleological

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adjective describing a movement toward some defined endpoint, aim, or goal

Question 17

Teleologcial version of darwin’s theory

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evolution is driven by an innate natural logic

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Non-teleologcial version of darwin’s theory

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the variations that drive evolution are completely random

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Utilitarianism

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an ethical philosophical system that prioritizes maximization of pleasure/happiness for individuals and communities

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Mutability

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Changeability - describes the degree of an objects capacity to be altered or transformed
Example: orogenes ability to alter or change the earth

Question 21

Apocalypse

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• Any revelation or disclosure
• A disaster resulting in drastic, irreversible damage to human society or the environment, especially on a global scale
  Example: Fifth season starting at with an apocalypse

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Irony

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Saying one thing but meaning another
Example: the stillness

Question 23

Orogeny

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Scientific term for one type of mountain-formation process, first popularized by an American geologist in late nineteenth century

Question 24

One-drop rule

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A legal doctrine, popular in the US South according to which anyone with any Black American ancestry whatsoever was considered Black and denied access to equal rights and fair treatment

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Racialization

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- to naturalize, to turn history into biology, cultural differences into dissimilarities

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Homogenize

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to perceive and picture all members of the racialized category as sharing a permanent essential quality that warrants differential treatment of its members in symbolic, social and physical space

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Anthropocene

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First time in human history where humans have made irreversible damage to the earth Example: 1950s when traces of nuclear materials became noticable in rocks - The stillness and how humans destroyed the world

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Narrative perspective

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Who is speaking: one person or multiple

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Narrative structure

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What order does the story get told

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Metaphor

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Implied comparison between two otherwise unrelated objects

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Simile

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Same as a metaphor but using like or as

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Symbol

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An otherwise ordinary object that becomes invested with new meaning - Example: Mobipack in spiderhead symbolizes control

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Liminal

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Characterized by being on a boundary or threshold, especially by being transitional or intermediate between two states Example: how Frankenstein’s creation is not fully alive nor fully dead

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Liminal space

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Places of risk and uncertainty, but also of possibility and exploration Example: time traveler as he is traveling to the future

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Language as a Techne

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Craft or art Language as theoretical knowledge, like mathematics - mental construct, something we learn and modify

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Speech-act theory

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Hinges on the idea that language is not just descriptive but also performative - descriptive: naming and identifying things for communication - performative: capable of imitating action and bringing new realities to existence

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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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Linguisitic relativity - suggestion that language shapes individual cognition and perception - variations in language will produce variations in the ways individuals think

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Transhumanism

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The belief that human beings can overcome the constraints of their material bodies with the aid of technology Example: Black Mirror episode

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Posthumanism

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Theoretical framework that challanges the notion that human beings are unique and different from other species - Focuses on breaking down distinctions between human and non-human animals

Question 40

Dual personality disorder

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A psychological condition that first entered medical discourse in the late 19th century - Multiple personality disorders