Name the author or title
"It seems clear that rhetoric is situational"
Bitzer, "The Rhetorical Situation"
"Between my finger and my thumb/ The squat pen rests; snug as a gun"
Digging by Seamus Heaney
statements where a writer conveys a belief or interpretation about something
claims
name of the squirrel's band
Squirrelvana
"Scream," "Friday the 13th," and "The Shining" are all examples of the horror _________.
genre
"For most of us, many of the people we encounter in a given day are subject to this kind of quick analysis."
Carroll, "Backpacks Vs. Briefcases"
"I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree"
"Birches" by Robert Frost
the data that supports (or substantiates) a claim
evidence
A better name for the band would have been ______.
Squirrel Jam
Speaking differently depending on the context is an example of __________.
code switching
"The words and actions of Kanye West during the 2009 VMAs failed to successfully persuade viewers into siding with his beliefs."
West's Rhetorical Fail
"I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide"
sentences that connect claims and evidence
warrants
member of the band who started trashing hotel rooms and making outrageous demands
the squirrel
Kanye West interrupted this artist at the 2009 VMAs.
Taylor Swift
"Often citing sources for an academic project is a bit like trying to hit a moving target: the rules seem to keep changing."
Walker, "Everything Changes, or Why MLA Isn't (Always) Right"
"I dwell in Possibility--
A Fairer house than Prose--"
Emily Dickinson, "I dwell in Possibility"
"texts that exceed the alphabetical and may include still and moving images, animators, color, words, music, and sound."
multimodal texts
location where Squirrelvana members Will and Jethro met for the first time
fish market in Seattle
Don't be "spooked" by these search terms (e.g. AND or OR) used in a library website search.
boolean operators
"The primary purpose of this chapter is to introduce you to multimodal composing and offer some strategies to help you create a multimodal text."
Gagich, "An Introduction to and Strategies For Multimodal Composing"
"Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry."
Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass
an appeal to the emotion of the reader
pathos
instrument played by the squirrel
the drums
best part of class
the squirrel