Saturday, 21 May 2022

What are NFTs? | The Economist

 


Watch the video and answer the questions below:

1) Where did NFTs come from?
2) Where can you sell an NFT?
3) How is NFT represented in art?
4) How is NFT related to metaverse?

Are NFTs really art?

 

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Lazy Lion NFTs


Read the article and answer the questions:

1) What do you know about NFT? Decipher it.

2)  Who are the celebrities that are promoting NFT?

3) What makes NFT different from art objects created in the past?

4) Would you like to buy one?

Monday, 18 April 2022

Questions for Seminar 3 in Stylistics

 1. Anaphora and epiphora

2. Chiasmus

3. Climax and anticlimax

4. Stylistic inversion

5. Ellipsis

6. Asyndeton and polysyndeton

7. Antithesis

8. Suspense

9. Aposiopesis

10.Represented speech

Sunday, 17 April 2022

If Netflix is stumbling will Wall Street renew or cancel?

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Bridgerton


Read the article and answer the questions:

1) Speak of Netflix at the beginning of its launch. Was it a success?

2) How many new users  have subscribed to Netflix this year as compared to the previous year and what was the result of it?

3) What other streaming services are mentioned in the article?

Post your answers in the commentary section below.

Sunday, 10 April 2022

Questions for Seminar 2 in Stylistics

1. Expressive Means

2. Stylistic Devices

3. Metaphor

4. Metonymy
5. Simile
6. Epithet
7. Pun
8. Zeugma
9.Violation of phraseological units
10. Semantically false chains
11. Nonsense of non-sequence
12. Irony
13. Antonomasia
14. Hyperbole
15. Oxymoron




Angelina Jolie receives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2013 Governors Awards

  Watch the interview and answer the question: What problem does Angelina raise in her acceptance speech?