Additional Activities
Read the short text below and answer the questions that follow. Write the
answer on your answer sheet.
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Computer games are like nightmares. They won't get out of your head even
when you close your eyes. You can picture them at anywhere. It seems they follow
your thoughts everywhere.
1. What is the analogy presented in the text above?
2. Why computer games are similar to nightmares?
Give 3 common qualities.
3. Did you have the same experience about computer games?
Tell something about it.
answer plz
Answers & Comments
Answer:
1. An analogy is something that shows how two things are alike, but with the ultimate goal of making a point about this comparison. The purpose of an analogy is not merely to show, but also to explain. For this reason, an analogy is more complex than a simile or a metaphor, which aim only to show without explaining
2.Technically any video game can give someone nightmares, even viva pinata. Obviously, what i mean is that any one individual can be afraid of any number of things known as phobias. So a person with coulrophobia, a phobia of clowns, would probably get nightmares of the video game in which he saw a clown or a person with Holophobia, a fear of guns, would get nightmares from any "shooter" game.
But what I am assuming is that you mean a game that would frighten the general populous into having a nightmare about it. In that case, any decent horror game would do.
3. yes! For example, Suomela et al. [1] described a game in which the camera in mobile phones is used to play a game of “assassin.” A player takes pictures of