ENGL 1010
Definition: the art of using language and communication to persuade an audience.
What is Rhetoric?
In this 1975 Spielberg film, a great white shark terrorizes a beach town.
What is Jaws?
This 1986 novella by Stephen King features a writer who becomes trapped in the care of an obsessive fan after a car accident.
What is Misery?
This internet horror phenomenon describes an endless maze of carpeted rooms that people can supposedly fall into by accidentally leaving reality.
Who is The Backrooms?
Name the game based on the emojis:
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An advertisement shows a starving puppy and asks viewers to donate money. Which rhetorical appeal is being used?
What is Pathos?
This masked killer stalks teenagers in the fictional town of Haddonfield in the Halloween film franchise.
Who is Michael Myers?
This 1890 Oscar Wilde novel features a portrait that ages and bears the consequences of its subject's sins.
What is The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Before pumpkins, this vegetable was traditionally carved into lanterns to ward off evil spirits.
What is a turnip?
This 2014 indie horror game involves a mysterious forest, a flashlight, and the collection of eight pages.
What is Slender: The Eight Pages?
An essay argues that students should get more sleep, citing studies showing that sleep improves memory and academic performance. Which rhetorical appeal is being used?
What is Logos?
In The Shining, what is the name of the hotel where Jack Torrance loses his mind?
What is the Overlook Hotel?
In Dracula, what is the name of the English solicitor who travels to Transylvania and becomes Dracula's prisoner?
Who is Jonathan Harker?
This cryptid, whose name translates roughly to "goat-sucker," is said to attack livestock and drain their blood.
What is a Chupacabra?
This 2014 horror game takes place in an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Colorado, where journalist Miles Upshur investigates rumors of some disturbing experiments.
What is Outlast?
This term describes the situation surrounding a piece of writing, including its author, audience, purpose, and circumstances.
What is Rhetorical Context?
This 2026 horror movie broke the record for most fake blood used in a movie with a whopping 80,000 gallons, surpassing the 2013 remake of Evil Dead.
What is Iron Lung?
This Shirley Jackson novel begins with the famous line, "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality."
What is The Haunting of Hill House?
This fictional website, launched in 2008, features a collection of disturbing photographs and stories about supernatural encounters.
What is The SCP Foundation?
This horror game's protagonist is a writer named Alan, who finds himself trapped in a nightmare where his writing seems to become reality.
What is Alan Wake 2?
A writer acknowledges an opposing argument before explaining why their own position is stronger. This is called a ______.
What is Counterargument?
This 1922 German expressionist silent film features Count Orlok, a vampire based on Bram Stoker's Dracula.
What is Nosferatu?
This 1892 Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story follows a woman whose obsession with the wallpaper in her bedroom reflects her deteriorating mental state.
What is, "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
This creepypasta features a haunted video game cartridge containing a disturbing version of the Nintendo 64 game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
What is "BEN Drowned"?
This best-selling horror game follows Leon S. Kennedy, a U.S. agent sent to a remote Spanish village to rescue the president’s kidnapped daughter, only to encounter a violent cult and a terrifying parasite.
What is Resident Evil 4?