Rhetorical Analysis
Film Analysis
Research Skills
Readings
MLA
100

They are the three modes of persuasion.

What are ethos, pathos, and logos?

100

It refers to the arrangement and composition of a scene.

What is mise-en-scene?

100

It is the X in the XYZ format.

What is the position you are arguing against called?

100

This names an online practice involving GIFs that reinforce the stereotype of black people as emotionally hyperbolic.

What is digital blackface?

100

In MLA, the title of a longer work, like a book or film, usually appears in this format.

What is italicization?

200
It is ethos.

What is the rhetorical appeal that focuses on the speaker’s credibility?

200

It refers to a rapid succession of images in a film to establish an association or mark the passage of time.

What is a montage?

200

It is what distinguishes primary sources from secondary sources.

What is a firsthand account or raw information?

200

According to Nicholas Carr, the Internet causes this to happen to our brains.

What is short attention span/inability to think deeply?

200

In MLA, the title of a short work, like a journal article, poem, or essay, should usually appear in these.

What are quotation marks?

300

An image that shows a crying child to elicit sympathy uses this rhetorical appeal.

What is pathos?

300

It is Truman Burbank's catchphrase.

What is "In case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night"?

300

They are the parts of an annotated bibliography entry.

What are heading, identification, summary, evaluation, and function?

300

Robinson Meyer describes them as Internet-connected devices with cameras that function as nodes in a system.

What are networked lenses?

300

They are what you put on the top right-hand side of your paper.

What is your last name and page number?

400

Nicholas Carr uses these rhetorical appeals in the following sentence: "A recently published study of online research habits, conducted by scholars from University College London, suggests that we may well be in the midst of a sea change of how we read and think."

What are ethos and logos?

400

It means the sound that characters in a film can't hear.

What is non-diegetic sound?

400

These are five features that distinguish academic from non-academic secondary sources.

What are purpose, author, audience, style, publisher, reference, and peer review (any 5 out of the 7)?

400

Chris Gilliard compares this modern technology to phrenology and craniometry.

What is biometrics/facial recognition?

400

It is the order in which sources on a works cited page should be listed.

What is the last name in alphabetical order?

500

This example uses all three rhetorical appeals.

The following example involves which rhetorical appeals: (any sentence that uses ethos, pathos, and logos)?

500

The final scene of The Truman Show primarily uses these techniques of cinematography to show Christof's control over Truman.

What are backlighting and high angle?

500

These are three of the requirements for an inquiry question.

What are not easily answerable, non-factual, open-ended, answerable by analysis of the primary source, and appropriate scoped (any 3 out of the 5)?

500

It is the X in Michel Foucault's book Discipline and Punish.

What is the humanitarian explanation of the historical change in punishment?

500

This is the information you should provide in your in-text citation when quoting from an article.

What are the author’s last name and page number?

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