Rhetoric and Argument
This is the rhetorical appeal that deals with facts and logic.
Logos
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
Thomas Jefferson (and Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman)
In this book, a man escapes slavery and works to liberate his people.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
This is the minimum number of "so what" moments a college essay should have.
Who played Gatsby?
Leonardo DiCaprio
This is the type of rhetorical appeal that deals with emotions.
Pathos
"What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?"
Frederick Douglass
A man watches as his neighbor pursues the man's married cousin.
The Great Gatsby
This is the minimum number of core values your college essay should include.
4
Who is the main character of The Glass Castle?
Jeanette
This is the type of rhetorical appeal that deals with credibility and authority.
Ethos
"But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it."
Henry David Thoreau
A boy wanders a city while wondering about ducks and fakeness.
The Catcher in the Rye
This is the name of the College Essay Guy, who wrote the yellow books.
Ethan Sawyer
Which rapper was an executive producer for The Great Gatsby?
Jay-Z
This rhetorical term is defined as "a short story told to prove a point."
Anecdote
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
How many personal statement prompts exist on the Common App?
6 (7 including the create-your-own)
Who said this quote: "I never built the glass castle."
Rex Walls (the dad in The Glass Castle)
This rhetorical technique is defined as "a direct or indirect reference to a literary work (fiction, folklore, religious text) or to a place, person, or event."
Allusion
"Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?"
Chief Tecumseh
Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye?
J.D. Salinger
Name at least three out of the four topics that I told you are overdone. (Remember, you can write about them, but you need to avoid cliches and have good so-whats.)
1. Sports, 2. Travel, 3. Volunteering, 4. Death/Loss/Tragedy
Australia