Rhetoric
What's in an Essay?
Great Speeches
Parts of Speech
Back to School Rules
100

True or False?  Logos relies on logic to persuade people to do something.

What is true?

100

True or False?  A good school essay should be at least five paragraphs in length.

What is true?

100

True of False?  The main character in "Lizzie Bright" was named Alvin Buckley.

What is False?  (It was Turner Buckminster)

100

A person, place, or thing.

What is a noun?

100

The number of feet you must stay away from others to maintain social distancing.

What is 6 feet?

200

An advertisement for Sosoft shampoo tells you that 90% of all Sosoft users experience healthier hair.  This approach is _________________.

What is logos?

200

The opening paragraph is called an ___________.

What is introduction?

200

The state that is the setting for the story "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy."

What is Maine?

200

The action part of the sentence.

What is a verb?

200

The number of people that can be in the school bathrooms at one time.

What is one?

300

A persuasive technique that relies on authority.

What is ethos?

300

The ____________ of the essay gives reasons and evidence for the thesis.

What is body?

300

The main focus of King's "I have a Dream" speech.

What is ending segregation?

What is promoting racial equality?

300

A word that describes a verb.

What is an adverb?

300

At what times you must wear your mask.

What is always?

400

A commercial that shows pictures of malnourished babies asks for donations.

What is pathos?

400

The last paragraph of the essay, restating the introduction is the __________________.

What is conclusion?

400

The author and speaker of the inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb"?

Who is Amanda Gorman?

400

A word that describes a noun.

What is an adverb?

400

How often you must complete the attestation that you are well enough to come to school.

What is every time you come to school?

500

Russell Wilson gives a speech about the importance of fitness for children.

What is ethos?

500

A good essay should include _________________ to counterarguments.

What is rebuttals?

500

The author and speaker of "Ain't I a Woman?"

Who is Sojourner Truth?

500

Word or group of words  to show direction, time, place, or location of a noun.

What is a preposition?

500
The number of school meals you can pick up each day you come to school.

What is four?  Two for the day you come and a "to go" pack for breakfast and lunch for the following day.

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