RA basic terms
These are the three main rhetorical appeals
What are ethos, pathos, and logos
What is juxtaposition?
Explain how Dumas uses humor to build pathos.
You tell me.
When discussing his daughter being denied access to an amusement park, Dr. King relies on this appeal.
What is pathos?
This fast food chain had a clown with yellow shoes for a mascot.
What is McDonalds?
These are the 3 points of the rhetorical triangle
What are speaker, audience, and message?
This is what is meant by exigency.
What is why the text was created at the specific time that it was?
By recounting past experiences of people mispronouncing her name, Dumas strikes this tone
Anything related to relatable, vulnerable or comedic
Dr. King's audience was primarily _____________
Alabama Clergymen (Will accept an argument for white moderates or whites in America in general)
This movie features a blue alien race called the Na'vi
What is Avatar?
Speaker
Purpose
Audience
Context
Exigency
This is the difference between concession and refutation
What is concession is conceding that you are wrong about something while refutation does the opposite; it fights.
Dumas begins with her childhood and then tells us about life as an adult, meaning she is writing in this structure
What is chronological?
MLK creates this by explaining why he is there in the first place at the beginning of the letter?
What did the i in iPhone originally stand for?
What is internet?
The CAT in SPACECAT stands for this.
What is
Choices
Appeals
Tone
This is an appeal that is outside of the main 3
What is kairos?
Dumas is using this rhetorical strategy when she contrasts her husband's "easy" to pronounce name to her own.
What is juxtaposition?
This rhetorical device is used when Dr. King writes "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
What is juxtaposition (will accept any correct answer)
This country has won the most FIFA Men's World Cups
What is Brazil?
This is the difference in purpose and message.
Message is what the speaker is saying. Purpose is what they are trying to accomplish by saying it.
(Message is what, purpose is why)
This is the term for asking yourself a question and then answering it.
What is a hypophora? (Yep, it sure is.)
This is Dumas's larger purpose behind writing about names.
What is something related to helping others better understand the immigrant experience in America and/or argue for the acceptance of immigrants in American culture
King's main purpose in writing the letter is this.
What is to persuade the clergy/ the white church to support the Civil Rights Movement?
This musical artist holds the Spotify record for the most-streamed song ever.
Who is The Weeknd?