Roots
Ethos/Logos/Pathos
Where is it from?
Current Events
Stylistic Devices
100
"Anthro"
What is "human"?
100
The ASPCA commercials would be considered heavily ____.
What is "pathos"?
100
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more."
What is "The Raven/Edgar Allen Poe"?
100
Name is current militant terrorist threat in the Middle East.
What is "Isis/Isil/Is"?
100
The woman is a kitten under the sun and cunning fox under the moon.
What is "metaphor"?
200
"Astro"
What is "stas/stars/outer"?
200
What does this quote represent? "You should definitely trust me with babysitting! You've known me for years and I taught Sunday School for decades!"
What is "ethos"?
200
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
What is "Pride and Prejudice/Jane Austen"?
200
The controversial shooting of Michael Brown happened in this state.
What is "Missouri"?
200
The tree bent over in sadness.
What is "personification"?
300
Dict
What is "speak"
300
Bob Herbert's use of statistical data in his article is an example of ______.
What is "logos"?
300
“We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.”
What is "The Hobbit/J.R.R Tolkien"?
300
President Obama just named this nearby wilderness a "national monument".
What is "San Gabriel Mountains"?
300
What makes us any better than non-human primates? What about humans makes us special against any other species?
What is "rhetorical question"?
400
"Terr/a/i"
What is "land/earth"?
400
Give an example of complex pathos.
(depends on answer given).
400
"Life ...is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing"
What is "Macbeth/Shakespeare"?
400
Ebola S, Z and Marburg are all _________ viruses?
What is "zoonotic virus"?
400
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is "hyperbole"?
500
"rupt"
What is to "break/burst"?
500
This section of the President's speech is an appeal to____ "I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts. But I will also renew the tough, direct diplomacy that can prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and curb Russian aggression. I will build new partnerships to defeat the threats of the 21st century: terrorism and nuclear proliferation; poverty and genocide; climate change and disease. And I will restore our moral standing, so that America is once again that last, best hope for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of peace, and who yearn for a better future."
What is "ethos"?
500
“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
What is "The Odyssey/Homer"?
500
Name any congressional candidate in this or a nearby district.
What is "Pete Aguilar/Paul Chabot/Mark Takano/Steve Adams/Norma Torres/Christina Gagnier"?
500
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
What is "antithesis"?
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