Rhetorical Devices
This appeal to credibility and character helps persuade an audience by establishing the speaker's authority.
What is Ethos?
A diary entry written by a historical figure is this type of source.
What is a Primary Source?
This is whoooooo you ask about questions of MLA formatting.
What is the Purdue OWL?
Use this form of argumentation when making straight-forward arguments.
What is Aristotelian?
Professor Childs has another name you're allowed to call her by.
What is Professor X?
When a toothpaste brand says, “9 out of 10 dentists recommend this,” they are using this persuasive appeal.
What is Ethos?
MLA stands for this.
What is the Modern Language Association?
According to the Syllabus, Major Writing Assignments are worth this % of your overall grade.
What is 40?
This is another word for the art of argumentation.
What is Rhetoric?
Professor Childs is originally from this state.
What is Maryland?
In a charity commercial, sad music plays while a narrator says, "For just $1 a day, you can save a child’s life." This is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
What is Pathos?
The title of a book is written in this type in the MLA.
What is Italics?
In Works Cited lists, using a 1/2" indent for all lines after the first line of each source is known as this.
What is the hanging indent?
Including this in your argumentative essay actually makes your argument stronger.
What is the counter argument?
Professor Childs has lived in these two European countries.
What are England and Germany?
In Black Panther, King T’Challa declares, “We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe" so this appeal to unity and shared humanity is an example of this rhetorical strategy.
What is Pathos?
In MLA format, if no author is available for an online article, you begin the citation with this piece of information.
What is the name of the article?
In Professor Childs' class, after this many absences, your final grade will be dropped by...
What is one letter grade?
Professor Childs showed a nifty PowerPoint about composing a thesis statement; its title was this.
What is "The Thesis Statement: From Chaos to Clarity"?
Professor Childs is currently working her Ph.D. with this University.
What is Kansas State?
In The Dark Knight, the Joker tells Harvey Dent, “You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go ‘according to plan’… even if the plan is horrifying.” By pointing out a flaw in society’s thinking, he is using this rhetorical appeal.
What is Logos?
In MLA in-text citations, you include this two-part information within parentheses to credit a source.
What is the author's last name and page number?
These are Professor Childs' office hours.
What is M-F, 9-10am?
Use this type of argumentation when presenting complex issues with no clear truths or when your thesis is a rebuttal or counterargument.
What is the Toulmin?
Professor Childs has this many cats.
What is three?