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The Drum Major Instinct
Rhetorical analysis basics
Potpourri
100

A rhetorical appeal that relies on logic

What is logos?

100

A question that's asked for effect, not for an answer

What is a rhetorical question?

100

The Drum Major Instinct is this kind of text.

What is a sermon?
Will also accept speech

100

This has three points and is always relevant in the rhetorical situation

What is the rhetorical triangle (Aristotelian triangle)?

100

Before he was a movie star or known for slapping Chris Rock, Will Smith starred in this television series set in California.

What is the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?

200
A rhetorical appeal that relies on credibility

What is ethos?

200

A rhetorical appeal that relies on emotion

What is pathos?

200
Later in the text, MLK suggests the drum major instinct goes beyond races. It is also part of the ________ struggle, he says.

What is national?

200

One should always do this before they begin reading the text.

What is preread?
Will accept any answer that describes prereading. 

200

Pixar's Brave is set in this nation.

What is Scotland?

300

the study and uses of written, spoken and visual language.

What is rhetoric?

300

The qualities of an argument that make it truly persuasive.

Hint: os

What are rhetorical appeals?

300

What evidence did MLK present the racist police guards that suggested they should be marching on the street with Black people.

What is that they were also poor and economically oppressed?
Will obviously accept any variation

300

The difference between message and purpose

What is any variation of "the message is what is being communicated, and the purpose is what the speaker hopes to accomplish by communicating that message".

300

These people really violated our trust the first time I let them present. 

Who are Dylan and Keaton?

400

a specific term referring to the characteristics one individual presents to another in order to influence the others’ perception of them

What is persona?

400

Placing two (usually quite different) things next to each other to encourage the audience to compare and contrast.

What is juxtaposition?

400

In the second half of the text, MLK criticizes America for this.

What is their thirst for power?
Also will accept The Vietnam War, The Cold War, and pride.

400
Latin for summary, this is a structured format for describing a rhetorical situation.

What is a rhetorical precis?

400
After being recorded running at 27.8 mph and having world records that have lasted fifteen years and counting, it is safe to say this is the fastest human of all time.
Who is Usain Bolt?
500

The moment or event that motivates someone to write or to speak about a specific issue, problem, or situation

What is exigency?

500

The specific writing techniques that authors use to convince the audience of their purpose (how they go about creating the appeals)

What are rhetorical strategies?

500

At the very end of the excerpt, MLK compares America to this former power.

What is the Roman Empire?

500

This is a term we have not studied that refers to the timeliness of an argument.

Hint: os

What is kairos?

500

On this day in 2003, a monument of this was removed from Alabama's Supreme Court building after it was deemed to have violated the separation of church and state.

What is "The Ten Commandments"?

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