Rhetoric
The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
What is rhetoric?
The use of descriptive, sensory details to describe a scene.
What is imagery?
The central argument of an essay.
What is a thesis?
Fixing errors on a sentence level, addressing problems with spelling, grammar, punctuation, or word choice.
The name for a carved pumpkin.
What is a jack-o-lantern?
An appeal to logic, using evidence-based claims to persuade the audience.
What is logos?
The overall mood or feeling of a text.
A paragraph of an essay that elaborates on a specific idea, point, or argument that supports the overall thesis.
What is a body paragraph?
What is a sentence fragment?
The "graveyard smash" that reached #1 on the charts on Halloween of 1962.
What is "Monster Mash"?
An appeal to authority or values, tapping into the values or ideologies of the audience.
What is ethos?
The narrative lens through which a text is depicted.
A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph indicating the subject to be discussed in that paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
Rather than addressing language errors, revision focuses on improving this.
What are the main ideas, concepts, or focus?
The Mexican celebration of departed ancestors that is associated with Halloween.
What is the Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead?
An appeal to emotion, invoking the feelings of the audience in order to gain their support.
What is pathos?
The practice of marking the text and adding notes or questions into the margins.
What is annotation?
The way to document a source within the body of an essay.
What is an in-text citation?
When two or more independent clauses are joined together with only a comma.
What is a comma splice?
Who is the villain from Friday the 13th?
Who is Jason Vorhees?
An appeal to timeliness, delivering a message at the correct moment for it to have its greatest effect.
What is kairos?
A category of composition, as in writing or art, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content.
A drafting strategh that focuses on getting ideas onto the page without worrying about editing or perfection.
What is generative writing or handwriting?
A revision strategy where you identify the main idea of each paragraph in 4-8 words, with the goal of improving focus and organization.
What is reverse outlining?
Bette Midler sings this song to enchant the partying parents in Hocus Pocus.
What is "I Put a Spell on You"?