I've Got Style!
I've Played That
Rhetoric Schmetoric
Mad Library Skills
Rhetgaming Superstars
100
This is the number of levels of style that there are, according to the classical model.
What is three?
100
In playing this game, some players die of snake bite or dysentery. Others hoard bacon. Some just shoot bears.
What is Oregon Trail?
100
This rhetorical appeal relies on establishing an emotional connection with the audience.
What is pathos?
100
This is the name of Stanford's online catalog that searches the holdings of its many libraries including BOOKS, FILMS, and VIDEO GAME TITLES.
What is Searchworks?
100
This game theorist coined the term "procedural rhetoric" and also wrote about theories of advergaming.
Who is Ian Bogost?
200
If you were reading a theoretical article in an academic journal, it would most likely be written in this style.
What is high style?
200
When you play this game, the goal is to solve math equations quickly -- and sometimes shoot things in the process.
What is Mathblasters?
200
This rhetorical appeal relates the credibility or trustworthiness of an author or argument.
What is ethos?
200
To search for a particular ARTICLE title, you would use this type of search engine through the Stanford library system.
What is a database? (x-search also acceptable)
200
This game theorist thinks that in some cases educational games are like a Spinach Sundae.
Who is Henry Jenkins?
300
If you were reading a funny, casual blog post by a gamer or a forum chat, it most likely would be written in this style or level of decorum.
What is low or plain style?
300
On Halloween, we visited a place that was not a game, but a virtual world - complete with a mini-Stanford campus and black squirrels.
What is Second Life?
300
What rhetorical appeal takes into account the appropriateness of time and place?
What is kairos?
300
This is the name of the scariest, dungeon-like part of Green Library, which houses older materials, like back-issues of Wired magazine.
What is the South Stacks?
300
This writer thinks that gaming can save the world.
Who is Jane McGonigal?
400
What do you call the type of writing that is writing about the act of writing?
What is metadiscourse?
400
Woodsy helped you get started on this game.
What's Rhetorical Peaks?
400
The "rhetorical situation" refers to the relationship between these three elements.
What are audience, text, and author?
400
DAILY DOUBLE: Chris Bourg says that the process of doing Research is like this.
What is cooking?
400
This is the co-author of Envision.
Who is Alyssa O'Brien?
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