Dystopia

Question 1

aesthetic

Answer 1

concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.

Question 2

urban

Answer 2

in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city.

Question 3

noir

Answer 3

a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity.

Question 4

cataclysm

Answer 4

a large-scale and violent event in the natural world.

Question 5

post-apocalyptic

Answer 5

denoting or relating to the time following a nuclear war or other catastrophic event.

Question 6

wastelands

Answer 6

an unused area of land that has become barren or overgrown.

Question 7

propaganda

Answer 7

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

Question 8

surveillance

Answer 8

close observation, especially of a suspected spy or criminal.

Question 9

conformity

Answer 9

compliance with standards, rules, or laws.

Question 10

cynicism

Answer 10

an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; scepticism.

Question 11

futility

Answer 11

pointlessness or uselessness.

Question 12

degradation

Answer 12

the condition or process of degrading or being degraded.

Question 13

totalitarian

Answer 13

relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

Question 14

tyrannical

Answer 14

exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way.

Question 15

corruption

Answer 15

dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.

Question 16

rebellion

Answer 16

an act of armed resistance to an established government or leader.

Question 17

dissent

Answer 17

the holding or expression of opinions at variance with those commonly or officially held.

Question 18

oppression

Answer 18

prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority.

Question 19

insidious

Answer 19

proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects.

Question 20

injustice

Answer 20

lack of fairness or justice.

Question 21

nightmarish

Answer 21

of the nature of a nightmare; very frightening or unpleasant.

Question 22

semantic field

Answer 22

writing a word then writing multiple words relating to the same topic

Question 23

non-linear narrative

Answer 23

A nonlinear narrative is a narration technique portraying events in a story out of chronological order

Question 24

cyclical structure

Answer 24

when a text begins and ends in the same place or with the same idea

Question 25

narrative perspective

Answer 25

Access to the narrator’s thoughts and feelings

Question 26

light/dark symbolism

Answer 26

when Darkness is often used to convey negativity. Light is used to convey something positive