Stereotypes
groups of people who have differences and similarities in biological traits deemed by society to be socially significant.
What is Race?
He wrote a book in which the main character, Charlie, takes acid at a Christmas party and passes out making snow angels.
Who is Stephen Chbosky?
A cat ate some cheese and waited for a mouse with baited breath.
What is a pun?
When only select evidence is presented in order to persuade the audience to accept a position, and evidence that would go against the position is withheld. The stronger the withheld evidence, the more fallacious the argument.
what is cherry picking?
He was born in this state.
What is Alaska
either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones.
what is gender?
This writer uses a graphic novel to tell her story about living in Iran.
Marjane Satrapi
To ditch class or not to ditch class, that is the question?
What is allusion?
Attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself, when the attack on the person is completely irrelevant to the argument the person is making.
what is ad hominem?
After attending this college for three years he was kicked out.
United States Military Academy @ West Point
a person's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they are attracted; the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual.
what is sexual orientation?
This writer's book contains character's named Lenny, Curly, George and Slim.
Who is John Steinbeck
Taking the PSAT is like putting your head in a vice!
What is a simile?
There are three kinds of syllogisms: If A then B, Either A or B and ...
What is categorical?
in 2001 and 2006 he graduated from Colorado State University located in this city.
What is Ft. Collins?
refers to shared cultural practices, perspectives, and distinctions that set apart one group of people from another.
what is ethnicity?
This Native American author hails from a reservation outside Spokane Washington and hates Tonto
Sherman Alexie
Mt Everest is 29,029 feet tall.
What is a fact or statistics/data?
When an analogy is used to prove or disprove an argument, but the analogy is too dissimilar to be effective, that is, it is unlike the argument more than it is like the argument.
What is false analogy/false equivalency?
him and his wife have two children named (need at least one of the two names, both give you double points).
Who is Sydney and Myles?
the social standing or class of an individual or group. It is often measured as a combination of education, income and occupation.
What is socioeconomic status?
This Author appeared on Ellen and wrote an essay encouraging us to eat dog!
Jonathon Safron Foer
Yeah, I love Mr. Tyson's 9th grade English class! I've never had so much fun at Aurora Central!
What is sarcasm?
this building block of arguments was invented by Aristotle 2500 years ago.
What is a syllogism?
his favorite kind of music.
What is electronic/techno/house/EDM?