Appeals
Rhetorical Techniques
Logical Fallacies
MLA
Grammar & Vocab
100

Appeals to the audience's sense of logic through comparisons and statistics

What is logos?

100

"What's the point of crying over spilled milk?"

What is a rhetorical question?

100

"If you don't love this country, leave."

What is a false dilemma fallacy?

100

used to create a "key" to find information about a source in the Works Cited within the body of a piece of writing

What is a parenthetical (in-text) citation? 

100

Part of speech for all of the following:

prosperous, depleted, beneficial, integrated, sustainable, deferred

What is an adjective?

200

Appeals to the audience's emotion through anecdotes and hypotheticals

Pathos

200

"No, I'm not mad, I'm as cool as a cucumber."

What is a simile?

200

"Atoms are invisible and I am made of atoms and therefore invisible too."

What is a false equivalence fallacy?

200

used to give a reader of a piece of writing a way to locate the original source of quoted material

What is a Works Cited entry/page?

200

Part of speech for all of the following:

prosperity, depletion, benefaction, integration, sustainability, deference

What is a noun?

300

Appeals to the audience's sense of ethics/morality and builds trust with credibility/expertise

Ethos

300

A word that could complete the analogy:

"Rain is to flooding as fire is to ______."

What is burning?

300

Sally: *presents an eloquent and compelling case for a more equitable taxation system*

Sam: "Should we believe anything from a woman who isn't married, was once arrested, and smells a bit weird?"

What is an ad hominem fallacy?

300

the component that makes this parenthetical (in-text) citation INCORRECT:

(Rowling, 112)

What is a comma?

300

Part of speech for all of the following:

prosper, deplete, benefit, integrate, sustain, defer

What is a verb?

400

“I have no energy, feel drained, and have no interest in anything,” says Steven, who has recently been diagnosed with depression — every sleepless night, he battles the overpowering feeling of self-hatred. 

What is pathos?

400

A word that could complete the analogy:

"Girl is to gender as blue is to _______."

What is color? 

400

"If you always pick up your baby every time he cries, he'll never learn to be independent. He'll grow up to be a clingy guy who drive away any potential girlfriends."

What is a slippery slope fallacy?

400

the component that makes this parenthetical (in-text) citation INCORRECT:

Angelou stated, "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated" (Maya Angelou).

What is the author's name?

(Or what is the author's first name?)

400

The suffix that could be added to all of the following:

Avoid____

Enjoy____

Manage____

Comfort____

What is "-able"?

500

"If my age doesn't convince you that I know what I'm talking about, at least consider that I am your grandfather and I only want the best for you."

What is ethos?

500

Doctor: "You need to stop smoking, it's unhealthy."

Jason: "That's all cool and everything, but my grandfather smoked, like, 30 cigarettes a day and lived until 97."

What is an anecdote?

500

Will: "We should put more money into health and education!"

Warren: "I'm surprised you hate our country so much that you want to leave it defenseless by cutting military spending."

What is a straw man fallacy?

500

the component that makes the following parenthetical (in-text) citation INCORRECT:

His passing reminded me: "Death ends a life, not a relationship" (Albom 216).

What is a colon?

(Bonus for 100 points: Explain what makes it incorrect!)

500

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”

“What you see is what you get.”

“You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”

What is parallelism/parallel structure?

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