Rhetorical Situations
Literary Time Periods
Of Mice and Men
The Great Gatsby
Miscellaneous
100

This rhetorical appeal deals with the absolute logic of an argument, often dealing with stats, statistics, or "if then" arguments.

What is logos?

100

This subset of another American Literature period focused on the individual experiences of people both returning from war, as well as those in Harlem struggling with their identities.

What is "The Lost Generation?"

100

This is the name of the time period in which this piece of literature occurs.

What is the Dust Bowl?

100

This great American author died from alcoholism as someone who was relatively unknown.

Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?

100

This author could be considered a Post-Modernist, with the bleak idea that what was occurring during the reign of McCarthyism was much like the Salem Witch Trials.

Who is Arthur Miller?

200

Which rhetorical appeal is used in the following statement? 

"I want you to imagine a world without bees - there are no flowers, the landscape gray, and life as we know it... extinct. Pretty bleak, right?" 

What is Pathos? 

200

This literary time period had authors such as John Steinbeck, as well as T.S. Eliot (with his famous poem, "Mending Wall") communicating the futility of the American dream. 

What is the Modernist Era?

200

In Of Mice and Men, what event foreshadows Lennie's death at the end of the novel?

What is Candy's dog being shot by Slim?

200

This is what the characters of Daisy, Tom, Gatsby, Jordan, and Nick all have in common. 

What is that they're all from the Middle West?

200

This president spoke up following the nation's banking crisis during the Great Depression, insisting that Americans trust in his "New Deal" program. 

Who is F.D.R.?

(Franklin Delano Roosevelt) 

300
In the acronym SOAPSTone, what does the second "S" stand for? 

What is the "Subject?"

300

This late literary time period included authors like Alice Walker, Khaled Hosseini, as well as James Baldwin.

What is Globalist Literature?

300

This poem, published in 1785 by Scottish author Robert Burns served as the inspiration for the title of Of Mice and Men.

What is "To a Mouse?" 

300

How are the characters of Daisy and Tom alike? 

They are careless - 

They don't take responsibility for their actions.

300

The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men take place approximately this many years apart from one another.

What is about 12 years (+/- 3 accepted).

400
In order, these single word "parts of persuasion" are represented by ethos, pathos and logos.

What are "speaker," "audience," and "argument?"

400

This generation would likely be portrayed by the following piece of literature:

Haiku (Birds Singing) (1956) 

Jack Kerouac

Birds singing
in the dark
—Rainy dawn.

What is the Beat Generation?

400

Judged against these, used as a standard in Texas capital punishment rulings since 2012, it is unlikely that Lennie would have survived in court, despite his intellectual disability.

What are the Briseño Factors?

400

Who is the first individual to discover Curley's wife's corpse?

Who is Candy?

400

This is the name that many Californians used to reference the many people traveling across the country to perform farm work in the state, often used as a "slur." 

What is "Okie?"

500

This author published a pamphlet titled Southern Horrors after a shocking uptick in lynchings throughout the south, mainly written to Blacks to stir them into resistance and action.

Who is Ida B. Wells?

500

This generation would likely be portrayed by the following piece of literature: 

Nothing Gold Can Stay (1924)

Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.

What is the Modernist Generation?

500

These are the individuals that speak to Lennie by the pond following the manslaughter of Curley's Wife.

Who are Aunt Clara, A Giant Rabbit, and George Milton?

500

This short story was written while Fitzgerald was awaiting the publication of The Great Gatsby, and it carries many of the same characters/themes.

What is "The Rich Boy?"

500

This Modernist Poem, written by T.S. Eliot, tells of a man who hesitated too much in life and now finds that life has passed him by, leaving him unfulfilled and dying.

What is the "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?"

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