Rhetorical Appeals
Speech
Film & TV
Comma Rules
Minnesota
100
An argument based on emotions, desires, values, feelings, and beliefs.
What is an appeal to pathos?
100
Their best known speech is "I Have a Dream."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
100
The name of the company in The Office.
What is Dunder Mifflin?
100
A phrase or dependent clause that comes at the beginning of the sentence and is followed by a comma. 
What is an introductory phrase?
100

This is the largest urban sculpture garden in the country.

What is the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden?
200
An argument based on facts, evidence, and reason. 
What is an appeal to logos?
200

This famous speech begins, "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

What is The Gettysburg Address?
200

Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye make up this team.

What is the Avengers?
200
Two independent clauses can be joined by a comma and this.
What is a conjunction?
200

This Minnesota building is the size of 78 football fields.

What is the Mall of America?
300
In an appeal to ethos, the speaker presents themselves as __________. 
What is credible, trustworthy, honest, or ethical?
300
Communication without speech: gestures, facial expressions, and body language.
What is nonverbal communication?
300

In this film, after his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.

What is Finding Nemo?
300
When you put a comma instead of a period or semi-colon between two independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
300

This popular brand of vegetables was originally called the Minnesota Valley Canning Company and was founded in 1903 in Le Sueur, Minnesota.

What is Green Giant?
400
This person presented themselves as a credible and trustworthy face of their company by dressing in the same black turtleneck everyday. 
Who is Steve Jobs?
400
This film is based on King George VI of England, who famously had a stutter. 
What is The King's Speech?
400

Greg Daniels and Michael Schur initially intended this show to be a spin-off of The Office, where a copy machine from Scranton would break down and then end up in Pawnee, Indiana, making the office equipment the spun-off character.

What is Parks and Recreation?
400

Where the comma goes in this sentence: The old man said “Get off my lawn.” 

What is after "said"?
400

The only facility in the country to host a Super Bowl, a World Series and a NCAA Final Four Basketball Championship.

What is the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome?

500
A successful speaker tailors what rhetorical appeals they use according to who the ________ is.
What is audience?
500
The number one phobia in the United States. 
What is the fear of public speaking?
500

This tv show is inspired by the look of a switched-off cellphone screen.

What is Black Mirror?
500

The name of the last comma in a list of three or more items. (Ex: She watched tv, ate dinner, and went to bed.)

What is an Oxford comma?
500

Minnesota has one of these per every six people, more than any other state.

What is recreational boats?
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