Vocab
Indiana Jones is an ________ archaeologist.
A. mundane
B. superficial
C. intrepid
D. novice
intrepid
In the Kim Stanley Robinson profile, what is the title of his most recent book?
The Ministry for the Future
Why couldn't Gay Talese ever secure a face-to-face interview with Frank Sinatra?
Sinatra had a cold
Which division of rhetoric did Cicero identify as most important?
invention
Complete the syllogism:
Major premise: Exercise contributes to better health.
Minor premise: Yoga is a type of exercise.
Conclusion:_________
Yoga contributes to better health.
Somber is to jubilation as random is to _______.
A. nonchalant
B. inevitable
C. suppress
D. wary
inevitable
______ is a persuasive discourse, a coherent and considered movement from a claim to a conclusion.
argument
How does Talese open his essay on Joe DiMaggio?
with a scene at DiMaggio's restaurant, looking out over the pier and the fishermen
Define the ad hominem fallacy.
"the diversionary tactic of switching argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker"
A claim must be ________.
arguable
Loyal is to perfidious as loving is to ______.
rancorous
"There was a time when you couldn't get me out of there" (665).
poetical, rhetoric
length, intentional punctuation, sentence complexity
What is the classical arrangement of an argumentative essay (must get at least three right, in the correct order)?
introduction, narration/exposition, confirmation (proofs), refutation (counterargument), conclusion
Define surreptitious.
secret, stealthy
Identify the three proofs that Milton uses to argue day is superior to night.
more noble lineage, greater origination (its history can be traced back further), and it's a greater use to humanity
How does Milton simultaneously venerate the classical poets while claiming they were wrong?
he blames the ignorance of their age, not their wisdom itself
the other arts speak for/argue for themselves, rhetoric is involved with argument itself, its scope encompasses every aspect of discourse
"incorrect to always claim that something is a cause just because it happened earlier. In other words, correlation does not imply causation" (102).
How would you describe a 12-year-old who graduated from college?
precocious
What is the name of Bruno Latour's theory that claims "it wasn't just individual researchers who mattered but the web in which they were embedded?"
"actor-network theory"
"Ethical studies may fairly be called political; and for this reason rhetoric ______ as political science, and the professors of it as political experts-sometimes from want of education, sometimes from ostentation, sometimes owing to other human failings. As a matter of fact, it is a branch of _____and similar to it, as we said at the outset" (Aristotle)
masquerades, dialectic
Identify three of Cicero's five divisions of rhetoric
invention, arrangement, elocution, memory, delivery
What is the Latin term for introduction, and what does it mean?
exordium, "beginning a web"