Rhetoric
The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
What is rhetoric?
These are being installed across America in "Time and Distance Overcome".
What are telephone poles?
The name for a carved pumpkin.
What is a jack-o-lantern?
The Greek word for an emotional appeal in an argument.
What is ethos?
A source that has firsthand experience with its subject
What is a primary source?
A paragraph of an essay that elaborates on a specific idea, point, or argument that supports the overall thesis.
What is a body paragraph?
The author of The Bone Road.
Who is Brandon Schrand?
The Mexican celebration of departed ancestors that is associated with Halloween.
What is the Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead?
The use of descriptive, sensory details to describe a scene.
What is imagery?
Part of a braided essay that could be a line of researched inquiry, a personal narrative, or a string of thought about a specific topic.
What is a thread?
The city where Cathy Park Hong describes growing up in "Bad English".
What is L.A.?
Who is the villain from Friday the 13th?
Who is Jason Vorhees?
The greek word for the use of logic in an argument.
What is logos?
The standard citation style for humanities publications.
What is MLA?
The central takeaway that connects both the parts of a braided essay.
What is the center of gravity?
This author wrote the braided essay "How to Skin a Bird".
Who is Chelsea Biondolillo?
The "graveyard smash" that reached #1 on the charts on Halloween of 1962.
What is "Monster Mash"?
When research findings are anonymously verified by other of experts in the field.
What is peer-review?
A line or symbol used for the purpose of breaking up sections of a chapter, article, or other text.
What is a dinkus?
In 2020, he wrote the New York Times Op-Ed "Send in the Troops".
Who is Senator Tom Cotton?
Bette Midler sings this song to enchant the partying parents in Hocus Pocus.
What is "I Put a Spell on You"?