Sentence Structure
Punctuation
Subject-Verb Agreement
American History
Rhetoric
class readings
Culture Studies/ Visual Analysis / Semiotics
100
What kind of problem does this group of words have? ---
Kelli finally found the food she had been craving for months. A Reuben sandwich.
What is a fragment?
100
Does this sentence need a comma? If so, which word should it come after? ---
Mr. Spock would not admit that he enjoyed the stand-up comedy routine but his brother thought it was hilarious.
What is "routine"?
100
Is this sentence correct? If not, which word is the problem? ---
Tonya and her sister has the same color of eyes.
What is "has"?
100
She was the last reigning monarch of Hawaiʻi and fought to protect her people's sovereignty before being overthrown in 1893.
Who is Queen Liliʻuokalani?
100
What are the three rhetorical strategies Aristotle described as making up a persuasive argument?
What are "logos", "ethos," and "pathos"?
100
This civil rights leader and scholar wrote The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and famously described the "double consciousness" experienced by Black Americans.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
100
The literal, surface-level meaning of a sign (for example, a red stop sign literally denoting “stop”) is known as its....
What is denotation.
200
What kind of problem does this group of words have? --- Delilah found her missing watch, she had spent the whole day looking for it.
What is a comma splice? (run on sentence)
200
Is this sentence already correct? If not, which word should a comma come after? ---
Gladys tried to sabotage John’s work but only succeeded in making herself look bad.
What is correct?
200
Is this sentence correct? If not, which word is the problem? --- Raccoons or a skunk sometimes eats the dog food before Socrates can get to it.
What is correct?
200
This U.S. president signed the 1898 annexation of Hawai‘i after the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
Who is William McKinley?
200
Give an example of using pathos in an argument.
[answers will vary]
Pathos, or emotional appeal, appeals to an audience's needs, values, and emotional sensibilities. Pathos can also be understood as an appeal to the audience's disposition to a topic, evidence, or argumen
200
In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois included these powerful expressions of Black emotional and cultural survival at the beginning of each chapter, showing how music could be a form of historical memory and resistance.
What are spirituals (or sorrow songs)?
200
The cultural or emotional associations of a sign (for example, red often suggesting danger) are known as its....
What is connotation?
300
What kind of problem does this group of words have? ---
Gerald plays the piano. As though he’s angry at the keys.
What is a fragment?
300
Is this sentence already correct? If not, which word should a comma come after? ---
Although Max ate a hefty lunch he was hungry again in two hours.
What is "lunch"?
300
Is this sentence correct? If not, which word is the problem? ---
Every terrier, collie, golden retriever, cocker spaniel, and mutt in the shelter have been howling today.
What is "have"?
300
Claude McKay and Langston Hughes were two poets associated with this movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
What rhetorical strategy is this an example of? "Political scientist, Hawaiian historian, and activist Noenoe Silva's extensive research and use of Hawaiian-language sources make her an authoritative voice on the Native Hawaiian resistance to colonialism."
What is ethos?
300
Complete this title of an Audre Lorde essay. "The Masterʻs tools..."
What is "will never dismantle the masterʻs house."
300
Give an example of an icon (in semiotics)
(answers will vary)
400
In this fused sentence, which word could be the first word of a new sentence? ---
Walter tried to dance at the party he knocked over a tray of sandwiches and stepped on his friend’s foot.
What is "he"?
400
One of these commas should be replaced with a semicolon. What word is before the comma that should be replaced? ---
During April, Yvonne re-tiled the bathroom, during May, she repainted the living room.
What is "bathroom"?
400
Is this sentence correct? If not, which word is the problem? ---
The janitors or one of the faculty members turn off the lights in the building every evening.
What is "turn"?
400
After the Civil War, and during Reconstruction these three amendments passed to emancipate and enfranchise formerly enslaved people (although many of the protections offered were undermined during the Jim Crow era).
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments? (emancipation, equal protection under the law, and prohibiting voting discrimination based on race)?
400
Give an example of a slippery slope argument.
[answers will vary]
400
In The Fire Next Time, Baldwin’s first essay, “My Dungeon Shook” is written as a letter to this person on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is his nephew?
400
signs where the relation between signifier and signified is purely conventional and culturally specific, e.g., most words.
What is a symbol?
500
Which word should be deleted to correct this sentence structure problem? ---
Because the truck will not start since Kevin worked on it after his stepbrother tried to teach him how to repair vehicles.
What is "because"?
500
One of these commas should be replaced with a colon. What word is before the comma that should be replaced? ---
Over the weekend, Devon read three of Poe's stories, "Ligeia," "The Masque of Red Death," and "The Black Cat."
What is "stories"?
500
Is this sentence correct? If not, which word is the problem? ---
A flock of pigeons like to perch on the power lines and leave droppings on the cars below.
What is "like"?
500
1882 Exclusion Act barred immigrants from this country, though many had built the Central Pacific Railroad
What is China?
500
What kind of "reasoning" is this sentence an example of? "Fair trade agreements have raised the quality of life most farmers, so fair trade agreements could be used to help coffee farmers in Brazil as well."
What is "deductive reasoning"
500
Noenoe Silva found these critical primary sources in the Library of Congress and helped organize an exhibition of them at the Bishop Museum in 1990s.
What are the Kūʻē petitions?
500
These are the signifier and the signified of this symbol. (list both)
Signifier: What is a rainbow flag with multiple colored stripes?
Signified: What are LGBTQ+ pride, diversity, inclusion, and solidarity?