Rhetoric
The rhetorical appeal related to common sense and facts
What is logos?
They weren't dangerous criminals they were detectives in disguise.
What is a run-on sentence?
The first sentence of a body paragraph
What is a topic sentence?
What is the visual mode?
A group of people with a shared discourse
What is a discourse community?
The rhetorical appeal relating to emotion
What is pathos?
I like walking to the park, I take my dog with me.
What is a comma splice?
The most important sentence of an essay that typically comes at the end of the introduction paragraph
What is a thesis statement?
The mode that involves sound and/or music
What is the aural mode?
When a speaker adapts his/her discourse to different situations
What is code switching?
The rhetorical appeal relating to authority
What is ethos?
Which is why we believe the proposed amendments should be passed.
What is a fragment?
A phrase that introduces a quote
What is a signal phrase?
The mode that involves written or spoken text
What is the linguistic mode?
When a speaker blends his/her various discourses within a single conversation
What is code meshing?
The limits of the format and genre of the work
What are the constraints?
Police are being notified that three prisoners have escaped.
What is passive voice?
The page that lists the sources referenced in the essay
What is a Works Cited page?
The mode that involves the placement and size of objects
What is the spatial mode?
Types of discourses one acquires after leaving home
What are secondary discourses?
The situation or context that makes the argument necessary and/or urgent
What is the exigence?
They didn't tell me about there dog.
What is the wrong form of "their"?
A quote that is more than four lines long
What is a block quote?
The mode that involves non-verbal bodily communication
What is the gestural mode?
Upon acquiring this type of discourse, one has better access to social or financial goods
What is dominant discourse?