COMMAS
READINGS
Odyssey/Othello
TRIANGLES
CATHOLICISM
100

Use a comma before this word when joining two independent clauses.

What is a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS)?

100

Amy Tan challenges the idea that effective language must be this.


What is standardized?

100

This is the Cyclops's real name

What is Polyphemus?

100

This appeal is most threatened when a speaker appears hypocritical.

What is ethos?


100

This part of the Mass includes the readings, homily, and Creed.


What is the Liturgy of the Word?

200

This type of comma separates items in a list.

What is the Oxford comma?

200

Orwell argues unclear language often results from this underlying cause.

 What is political dishonesty or corruption?

200

This character is the most direct foil to Iago

Who is Desdemona?

200

Statistical evidence primarily strengthens this appeal.

What is logos?

200

This phrase describes the pope’s authority to teach without error under specific conditions.

What is papal infallibility?

300

Misplaced commas can change the meaning of a sentence in this way.

What is making it unclear or incorrect?

300

All of the authors would agree that language should primarily do this.

What is communicate meaning honestly?

300

This is the name of Odysseus's father

Who is Laertes

300

Sedaris’s humor strengthens ethos but risks weakening this appeal.

What is logos?

300

This term refers to the belief that the Eucharist becomes the Body and Blood of Christ.

 What is transubstantiation?

400

This error occurs when two independent clauses are joined by a comma alone.

What is a comma splice?

400

Sedaris’s humor relies heavily on this rhetorical technique.



What is hyperbole?

400

Othello is set in these two places

What is Venice and Cyprus

400

Amy Tan builds ethos primarily by doing this.

What is sharing personal experience?

400

This Latin phrase refers to the official teaching authority of the Church.

What is the Magisterium?

500

A comma is required before this type of clause when it begins a sentence.


What is a dependent clause?

500

Kurt Vonnegut is from this American city.

What is Indianapolis?

500

This is Othello's first gift to Desdemona

What is the handkerchief. 

500

Name and define all six points of the triangles

Ethos, Pathos, Logos; audience/context, purpose, exigence

500

This is how the Church determines which Sunday Easter will fall on

What is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. 

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