Comedians and Actors
This comedian is know to possess a personality bigger than his physical body.
Who is Kevin Hart?
The art of persuasive discourse
What is Rhetoric?
Steve Harvey plays the role of a rambunctious and competitive uncle at the family get together in this movie
What is The Johnson's Family Reunion?
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect
What is irony?
Known for his large personality and even larger mustache, this successful comedian has gone on to host a well known game show
Who is Steve Harvey?
Known as "the highest mode of self-expression" (Spoken Soul 14)
What is poetry?
Robin Townsend plays an aspiring actor looking for his first gig, in this 1987 movie
What is the Hollywood Shuffle?
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is alliteration?
This individual starred on a popular tv show with his son in the mid-70s.
Who is Redd Foxx?
A person who is using the art of rhetoric
What is a rhetor?
This 70s show aired for 6 seasons on CBS and it's well known character goes by a nickname with two of the same letters.
What is Good Times?
the action of making statements that represent something as better or worse than it really is.
What is exaggeration?
In 1978, who said the following quote: "Even the most sophisticated joke tellers usually revert to dialect in closed company. Indeed the tales lose much of their flavor in standard English." (Spoken Soul 57)
Who is Daryl Cumber Dance?
This individual coined the terms ethos, pathos, and logos
Who is Aristotle?
Regarded in the text as one of the most successful blaxploitation movies with a reported gross of 6.4 million. Ron O’Neal plays the a drug dealer named Priest in this movie
What is Superfly?
The juxtaposition of two not-quite-related ideas; something that is out of harmony with expectations.
What is incongruity?
This actor played as a choir director in a series of movies named the Sister Act
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
a type of stage entertainment featuring songs, dances, and formulaic comic routines based on stereotyped depictions of African Americans and typically performed by white actors with blackened faces
What is a minstrel show?
It was said that blacks let out a collective sigh when this show aired in the 1980s because it showed "well-to-do professionals who spoke proper English and meted out textbook-perfect guidance and affection to their children...'
What is The Cosby Show?
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
What is anaphora?