Rhetorical Appeals
Bias and Misinformation
WRIT 106
Montclair State 101
Random Trivia
200
This is the rhetorical appeal to emotions.
What is pathos?
200
This is created when social media feeds you only news stories that agree with your own point of view.
What is an echo chamber?
200
A sentence that moves the discussion from one talking point (or paragraph) to another is called this.
What is a transition?
200
This is the name of our campus writing center.
What is the Center for Writing Excellence (CWE)?
200
Correctly spell and pronounce my last name.
What is Margenau (Mar-Guh-Now)?
400
Believing that you need to get a new set of tires because an auto mechanic told you so could be an example of this appeal.
What is ethos?
400
Facebook announced that it was eliminating fact-checkers and, instead, relying on these for content moderation.
What are community notes?
400
The first draft of any major assignment in our class is called this.
What is an "exploratory" draft?
400
She is Rocky the Red Hawk's little sister.
Who is Roxy?
400
The piano is a part of this instrument family.
What is percussion?
600
A commercial for saving homeless animals plays sad music while a website where you can donate is shown on screen. The commercial is using these two appeals simultaneously.
What are pathos and logos?
600
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, also owns this major news publication.
What is the Washington Post?
600
This is another name for a thesis statement that we used all semester.
What is a Central Claim?
600
Montclair State's motto, "Carpe Diem," is Latin for this.
What is "Seize the Day?"
600
This is what the GPT in ChatGPT stands for.
What is Generative Pre-trained Transformer?
800
Kronos is a rhetorical appeal to this.
What is chronological (or linear) time? (Kairos has to do with timeliness.)
800
We watched an episode of the comedy news show Last Week Tonight. He is the host (and his name is also in the title).
Who is John Oliver?
800
A source that collects information from both primary and secondary sources is called this.
What is a tertiary source?
800
Montclair State's library is named after this first president of the university.
Who is Harry Sprague (Sprague Library)?
800
This was the original name of the current Washington Nationals baseball team.
What is the Montreal Expos?
1000
The diagram we looked at in class (developed by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle) that included ethos, pathos, and logos is in the shape of this.
What is a triangle?
1000
We learned about this method for evaluating the credibility of online sources that uses this acronym.
What is the S.I.F.T. method (Stop, Investigate, Find better coverage, & Trace claims to their original source)?
1000
This is the department I teach in (and that our course is listed in).
What is the Department of Writing Studies?
1000
Normal Ave., the road that you enter campus through, is named after a normal school, an institution for training these (also the type of school Montclair State originally was).
Who are teachers? (MSU was formerly called Montclair State Teachers College.)
1000
This is the name of the small, landlocked country located entirely within the country of South Africa.
What is Lesotho?