Cultural Contexts 2

Question 1

This is a palindrome.

Answer 1

a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward and forward.

Question 2

Define what is meant by the term scapegoating.

Answer 2

Someone assumes blame for a community’s sins or is sacrificed for the community’s good– those who are persecuted become “marked” because of a trait or characteristic that is out of their control — For example, they are the “wrong” sex or from the “wrong” part of the country. (THE LOTTERY)

Question 3

This is what is meant by the term singularity.

Answer 3

The hypothesis that the invention of artificial super-intelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.

Question 4

This author volunteered to fight In Vietnam.

Answer 4

Tim O’Brien

Question 5

Define what is meant by the term, allegory.

Answer 5

A literary device in which characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts.

Question 6

Most of the story’s we’ve been reading fall into this genre of fiction

Answer 6

Literary Fiction

Question 7

This is superior to a Hangman’s Knot.

Answer 7

RUNNING NOOSE 
(I got this one to double our points)