Name two good elements of an effective introduction
What is a hook (many answers possible) and a thesis?
100
"Your views on marriage are irrelevant, you're a Catholic Priest!"
What is Ad Hominem
100
repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of phrases, clauses, or sentences
What is anaphora
100
"I could smell the bright cold" - Benjy, The Sound and the Fury
What is synesthaesia?
100
"_____________, all hands mean you and me, hey!"
What is synechdoche?
200
name three places you can garner evidence for the argument
What is historical/current events, personal example, literature, etc.?
200
"people begin by sneering at family life and institutions, next thing you know, we'll have intermarriage between black and white" - Tom Buchanan, The Great Gatsby
What is slippery slope?
200
the deliberate omission of conjunctions
What is asyndeton?
200
"The first rule of Fight Club is--you do not talk about Fight Club."
Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, Fight Club
What is Aphorism?
200
the triforce
What is tricolon paralellism?
300
the number of sources you must cite in your synthesis argument
What is three?
300
"They have weapons of Mass Destruction" - George W. Bush
What is scare tactics?
300
a word or phrase that is at the end of a sentence (or clause), then repeats itself at the beginning of the next sentence (or clause).
What is anadiplosis?
300
The Redcoats are coming?
What is metonymy?
300
Lays chips
What is epistrophe?
400
what is spam (for rhetorical analysis thesis) an acronym for?
What is speaker, purpose, audience, methods?
400
“Gay marriages are just immoral. 70% of Americans think so!”
What is Ad Populum?
400
Who are the most awesome students in Madison H.S.? You guys are of course!
What is hypophora?
400
The fake pathos
What is bathos?
500
“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me..." - Frankenstein