A comparison between two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
This Fox News columnist called you a "deluded narcissist."
Who is Dr. Keith Ablow?
100
The "Letter From Birmingham Jail" was an open letter defending nonviolent resistance penned by this civil rights leader.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
While we didn't directly learn this as a tone, we spent a lot of time covering rhetoric utilizing this humorous tone aimed at pointing out fault or flaw in the individual or society.
What is satirical?
100
These are the three primary parts of the Aristotelian triangle.
What are the speaker, subject, and audience?
200
A reference made to a piece of art, a moment in history, a religious text, a famous person, or anything else that a reader will recognize.
What is an allusion?
200
Kyle Russell, a reporter for Business Insider and a Google Glass "Explorer," was physically accosted after covering a protest in this city.
What is San Francisco?
200
Annie Dillard likens this stunt pilot to an artist.
Who is Dave Rahm?
200
Intended to teach or instruct.
What is didactic?
200
An appeal to credibility.
What is ethos?
300
A rhetorical device wherein the author places a person, concept, place, idea or theme parallel to another.
What is juxtaposition?
300
Huffington Post editorial cartoonist Shahid Mahmood directly alludes to this famous essay in "Eating Children, Satirically Speaking."
What is "A Modest Proposal?"
300
He spoke to Glaucon about a metaphor for human knowledge.
Who is Socrates?
300
Even-tempered, calm, tranquil.
What is placid?
300
What Toulmin would call logos.
What is data?
400
A rhetorical device in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.
What is metonymy?
400
This Atlanta, Georgia high school junior will "stop letting numbers define [her]."
Who is Katie Atkinson?
400
He sits at the front of the church next to Westley.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
Full of humor, amusement, and joy.
What is mirthful?
400
The situation in which an argument takes place.
What is context?
500
A technical language that is unique to a trade or profession, not commonly understood or used by others.
What is jargon?
500
The story of classical violinist Joshua Bell's rush hour performance was chronicled by Gene Weingarten in this newspaper.
What is The Washington Post?
500
We celebrated the 150th anniversary of this seminal speech on November 19th, 2013.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
500
Deep hatred or disapproval.
What is contemptuous?
500
What an audience is assumed to believe in order to persuade them that the data ties to the claim.