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Satire
What is a type of high comedy that uses irony, ridicule, and humor to effect social change?
You know, Bob, every other student is going to take a break from studying over the holidays. You should too!
What is ad populum?
The minstrel man who buys James in Chapter 27 of Part 1.
Who is Emmett?
The scientific data is clear: 96.7% of all scientists agree that it's better to have a winter vacation.
What is logos (the rational appeal)?
There is a house one enters blind and leaves seeing. What is this house called?
Three of the types of irony.
What are verbal, cosmic/irony of fate, dramatic, verbal, proleptic, or situational?
A student asks if an assignment is being graded. The teacher responds that it is not. The student then says, "Well, I guess it's not important, then."
The poet who writes morbid "graveyard" poetry in Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Emmeline Grangerford?
To build a dream is the highest of pursuits; to tear a man's dream down is the lowest of endeavors.
What is antithesis? Can anyone tell me?
What goes on four legs in morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?
What is a human?
Analogy
You really should stop staring at screens all day because staring at screens all day is something you should never, ever do.
circular reasoning
The person who owned the land Henry David Thoreau stayed in for a year while living in the wild.
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?
"The modern school has more to do with factories than with education," Dr. Winfred Humphrey said. "Its rigorous bell schedule, meant to make for compliant workers, and desks, meant to cage human activity, both speak to the similarities."
What is an analogy?
Who does Oscar Wilde say knows the price of everything but the value of nothing?
Paralipsis
At Hoity Toity University, we've always held examinations in classrooms since the year 1805, so I see no reason to discuss holding examinations in any other way.
What is appeal to tradition or argumentum ad antiquitatem?
He employed Chris McCandless briefly in Into the Wild and was a grain elevator operator.
Who is Wayne Westerberg?
I won't even mention the fact that my opponent changed her position three times in the last week alone!
Paralipsis
“As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?”
What is one person (the speaker)?
Proleptic irony
What is a literary device in which a character says or does something in the present they wouldn't have done if they knew what the future held?
Well, since intellectual Percival Everett tells us that time travel to the past is impossible, we should listen.
What is the appeal to false authority.
The enslaved man who gave James his pencil and pays a bitter price for it.
The "SPACE" In "SPACE" Cat?
What is the speaker-purpose-audience-context-exigence?
My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings, lords of the earth, their luxury and ease. Another view of man, my second brings. Behold him there, monarch of the seas!
-Jane Austen's riddle devised in Emma.
What is courtship (determined by putting "court" and "ship" together)?