Rhetoric
These are the elements of the rhetorical triangle.
What is speaker, audience, and purpose?
This is how long you have on the multiple choice section of the exam.
What is one hour?
This is how many sources you MUST cite in order to score higher than a 2 on the synthesis essay.
What is 3?
This is an anecdote.
What is a personal story?
This is bandwagon.
What is an appeal that assumes something is true (or right or good) because others agree with it?
These are the three rhetorical appeals.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
This is how long you have on the essay portion of the exam, including the extra time for prompts.
What is 2 hours and 15 minutes?
What are choices the author/speaker makes to achieve his/her purpose with the audience?
This is parallelism.
What is the use of successive constructions in grammatical structure?
This is juxtaposition.
What is placing two unlike situations, ideas, etc. side by side for comparison?
This is an emotional appeal.
What is pathos?
This is how much time you should spend on each essay.
What is 40 minutes?
This is how many examples you need for the argument essay.
What is 3?
This is satire.
What is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues?
This is a slippery slope.
What is assuming that a certain course of action will necessarily lead to a chain of future events?
This is an appeal to reason.
What is logos?
This is the order in which the essay prompts will be on the exam.
What is synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and argument?
This is what you should end EVERY body paragraph with.
A connection back to the thesis.
This is colloquial.
What is ordinary or familiar type of conversation and/or word choice?
This is ad hominem.
What is a fallacy that attacks the person instead of the argument?
This is an appeal to shared beliefs.
What is ethos?
This is the essay you should start with.
What is whichever essay you feel the best about?
This is how long you should spend of the 15 minute reading period on each prompt.
What is 8, 5, 2?
This is hypophora.
What is a figure of reasoning in which one or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker?
This is synecdoche.
What is a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa?