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The quiz was created by Wayne Mills, a former educator at the University of Auckland, who wears a purple and black hat while hosting this literary quiz. In 2008 Wayne Mills was given the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award [ 1 ] to recognize his achievement in establishing the Kids' Lit Quiz. [ 2 ]
Unsuited to age group, witchcraft, religious viewpoint, anti-family, darkness/scariness/violence, and for "setting bad examples" 1997–2007 — 1 48 The Hate U Give: Angie Thomas: Profanity, violence, "thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda 2017 30 — — Heather Has Two Mommies: Lesléa Newman ...
In reviewing the microaggression literature, Scott Lilienfeld suggested that microassaults should probably be struck from the taxonomy because the examples provided in the literature tend not to be "micro", but are outright assaults, intimidation, harassment and bigotry; in some cases, examples have included criminal acts. [22]
1 Literature quiz posted November 24, 2006. 1 comment. 2 Literature quiz posted November 18, 2006. 2 comments. 3 Literature quiz posted November 11, 2006.
1 Literature. 2 Film. 3 Comic books. 4 Television. ... Printable version; In other projects ... This article may contain excessive or irrelevant examples.
Most Americans aged 50 to 75 flunked a retirement income literacy quiz that tested their knowledge about inflation, investments, long-term care, Medicare, and Social Security.
Gibberish, also known as jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense: ranging across speech sounds that are not actual words, [1] pseudowords, language games and specialized jargon that seems nonsensical to outsiders.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...