This is a propaganda technique that uses a folksy approach to convince us to support someone or something. These ads depict people with ordinary looks doing ordinary activities.
Example: Dove commercials and McDonald's commercials
What is plain folks?
100
This punctuation mark is used to list, separate two independent clauses, and with to present introductory elements.
What is a comma?
100
These two characters oppose each other in a traditional plot.
Example: Ellen and her father
What is the protagonist and antagonist?
100
Definition: The main idea of an argument.
Example: Students must be college ready to be successful in higher learning.
What is claim?
100
These are the two types of nouns.
Example: cat and New York City
What is common and proper?
200
This is a propaganda technique used to make a person desire to be a part of an elite, upper group and not part of the masses.
Example: The Vogue and Calvin Klein commercials.
What is snob appeal?
200
This is used to two separate independent clauses and to avoid confusion with an overuse of commas.
What is a semicolon?
200
This type of character does not change in the story, and this other type of character does change throughout the story.
Example: Mavis and Ellen
What is a static character and a dynamic character?
200
Definition: This is when facts, numbers, and information can be very convincing.
Example: A Snickers bar has 280 calories and 30 grams of sugar. That’s not very healthy.
What is logos?
200
These are the three types of verbs.
Example: is, has, and ran
What is linking, helping, and action?
300
Daily Double!!! Make your wager, and I will reveal the answer to everyone. The wager must be in increments of $300.
This is when two dissimilar items who are portrayed as similar but it is lacking evidence to support the comparison.
300
This is used as a drum roll to list items and to explain the first independent clause.
What is a colon?
300
Daily Double!!!
Place your wager and I will reveal the question. It must be in increments of $300.
This character is a pattern or model of an action, a character type, or an image that recurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal.
Example: Corrupt king, lost child, and love struck teens
300
This is when you get people to trust you in order to persuade them.
Example: Trust me! I have been there before. I am just like you.
What is ethos or appeal to logic?
300
These are the four main sentence types.
Example:
He ran.
After the dog, he ran.
The boy ran to the dog, and the man ran to the house.
After the dog, the boy ran, and into the house, the man ran.
What are simple, complex, compound, compound-complex?
400
This propaganda technique is also called "black-and-white thinking" because only two choices are given. You are either for something or against it; there is no middle ground or shades of gray. It is used to polarize issues, and negates all attempts to find a common ground.
Example: Democrat or Republican
What is either-or fallacy?
400
This is used in internal citations and to clarify items in a list if the commas lend to confusion.
What are parentheses?
400
This character is the main character of the story, and this character is the opposite of the main character.
Example: Ellen and Starletta
What is the protagonist and foil?
400
This is when the writer uses experts or important people to push an issue:
Example: Mentioning Mrs. Grimmett when you discuss Early College High School.
What is big names or appeal to authority?
400
Daily Double!!!
Wager your money, and I will provide the question. You wager must be in increments of $400.
This is the five stages of the plot in order.
500
This is presenting compelling data or issues that are irrelevant to the argument at hand and it claims that it validates the argument.
Example: Discussing how bad the lunch food is because you do not want your parents to discuss a bad test grade.
What is red herring?
500
Daily Double!!!
Place your wager, and I will reveal the answer. Your wager must be in increments of $500.
This type of punctuation mark is used sparingly in writing because of its informality; however, it can be used enhance tone and separate parenthetical elements. Nevertheless, it should never be used if a comma or colon can be used.
500
This character is underdeveloped by the author, and this character is developed by the author.
What is a flat character and a round character?
500
Daily Double!!!
Place your wager, and I will reveal the answer. It must be in increments of $500.
This is when an issue is so urgent, you must act now.
Example: This is a one-time offer. You can’t get this price after today.
500
These are the eight parts of speech.
Example: food, ran, blue, loudly, wow, and, he, into
What is noun, verb, adjective, adverb, interjection, conjunction, pronoun, and preposition?