Rhetoric
The person delivering the message in the rhetorical situation.
What is the speaker?
The speaker's specific word choice.
What is diction?
A literary device that presents two contrasting ideas in a balanced structure.
What is antithesis?
Catastrophic floods struck this state over the July 4 holiday weekend, killing at least 135 people, including dozens of children from a summer camp.
What is Texas?
This grinning fuzzy toy has become wildly popular, selling out instantly online and in stores around the world.
What are Labubus?
The circumstances (time, location, culture) surrounding a speech or other piece of rhetoric.
What is context?
An exaggeration used to emphasize a point.
What is hyperbole?
A word or phrase that modifies or adds nuance to an argument.
What is a qualifier?
On Aug. 7, this economic policy of President Trump's took effect, targeting imports from dozens of U.S. trading partners in a major escalation of a global trade war without parallel in modern history.
What are tariffs?
In July, more than 100 aid agencies and rights groups, including Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, warned of this humanitarian disaster spreading across Gaza.
What is famine, or mass starvation?
The author or speaker's attitude towards their subject matter.
What is tone?
A reference to a person, place, historical event, or work of literature.
What is an allusion?
These two words refer to the dictionary and cultural/emotional meaning of a word.
What are denotation and connotation?
Bonus: Which is which?
The spectacular blowup in June between President Trump and this tech titan ripped apart a shaky alliance between two of the world’s most powerful men.
Who is Elon Musk?
On June 22, President Trump upended decades of diplomacy when he sent American warplanes and submarines to strike three of this country’s nuclear facilities.
What is Iran?
The circumstances that have motivated a person to speak on a particular topic at a particular moment.
What is exigence?
Placing a person, place, thing, or idea alongside something else in order to provide and/or highlight a contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
The art of effective or persuasive speaking and/or writing.
What is rhetoric?
In June, the Trump administration ordered the deployment of Marines and National Guard troops in response to days of protests about this issue in Los Angeles.
What are immigration raids?
On August 18, following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, President Trump met with this other world leader at the White House.
Who is Volodymyr Zelensky (president of Ukraine)?
Bonus: What did Zelensky wear, and why was this notable?
The rhetorical appeal being used when the speaker attempts to demonstrate their authority on the topic.
What is ethos?
The repetition of grammatical patterns or structures in a sentence or paragraph.
What is parallel structure or parallelism?
The use of faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument.
What is fallacy?
On Aug. 9, Jen Pawol made Major League Baseball history when she became the first female to do this.
What is umpire a regular-season game?
The U.K. announced in July that it would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to do this.
What is vote?