Rhetoric and Appeals
This is the appeal to evoke emotion.
What is pathos?
This author was discussed during the first week of class and is known for persuading writers to improve their skills by reading more.
Who is Stephen King?
This film clip showed three men discussing whether or not to save a soldier who just lost all three of his brothers in combat.
What is Saving Private Ryan?
There are three parts to a thesis statement: context, subject, and this word.
What is claim?
This is the time that our class begins.
What is 2:30pm?
According to our in-class discussions and readings, rhetoric is defined as this.
What is the art of persuasion?
In her essay titled this, Gloria Anzaldua discusses both the challenges and the beauty of being bilingual.
What is "How to Tame a Wild Tongue"?
For a classroom activity, I asked each group to create one of these main parts of an academic essay based on several items in two different bags.
What is a thesis statement.
This is the part of the academic essay I described being like a triangle that restates the thesis and sums up the main points.
What is conclusion?
If you attend a reading by an author who wrote a book about how to eradicate homelessness, and they discuss in detail the horrors of being homeless and emphasizes their first-hand experience with being homeless, they are using these two appeals.
What are pathos and ethos?
This author discusses "murdering" the "angel" part of her identity in order to reclaim her agency.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
In the acronym AXES, the X stands for this.
What is example?
This is the last name of the author of 50 Essays.
What is Cohen?
If a person is using statistics and data to support their argument, they are using these types of proofs associated with logos.
What are inartistic proofs.
This author states in their essay: "In that first year, my first away from my hometown, I was to become thoroughly familiar with the language of fear. At dark, shadowy intersections, I could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk, thunk . . . of the driver -- black, white, male, or female -- hammering down the door locks."
Who is Brent Staples?
During class, we performed a rhetorical analysis of this young activist's speech at the United Nations.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
While discussing engaging with texts, I asked you to enter into this with the text, which allows you to create somewhat of a dialogue with the author.
What is conversation?