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Philosophical Folks
Fiction is Also Pretty Strange
More Rhetoric (of course)
Elements of Style
Mixed Bag Part Deux
100
Never wrote a single line; feigned ignorance in order to call upon others’ innate reasoning
Who is Socrates?
100
Which city is a moveable feast?
What is Paris?
100
Example: “S.P.A.T: Single Parents ALONE TOGETHER” –About a Boy
What is oxymoron?
100
Typically a demonstrative pronoun or third person gender neutral pronoun is used with no clear antecedent.
What is an unclear pronoun reference?
100
The author of A Moveable Feast.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
200
“We cannot step twice into the same river”
Who is Heraclitus?
200
Who wrote Sophie's World?
Who is Jostein Gaarder?
200
Example: “That sword was not useless to the warrior now.”-Beowulf
What is litotes?
200
A quote is used without the writer incorporating the quote into his or her own sentence (This is an error to avoid!)
What is a stand-alone quote?
200
The following is an example of which figurative device... "The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day." - "Paradise Regained"
What is a simile?
300
Everything in the world is made in the form of a timeless and perfect mold or form (he called them ideas). The world is made up of copies of these thought-forms; told the story of “The Myth of the Cave”
Who is Plato?
300
In Joyce's Dubliners, this is the story about Little Chandler.
What is "A Little Cloud"?
300
Example: "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"—Henry David Thoreau, Walden
What is epizeuxis?
300
The error in this sentence: Mindy enjoyed sailing, skiing, and to weave baskets?
What is lack of parallelism?
300
A media theory audiences which states that we actively consume media texts for different reasons and in different ways, including diversion, personal relationships, identity, and surveillance (acquiring information that is useful for living).
What is Uses and Gratifications Theory?
400
Preoccupied with the questions of the nature of certain knowledge and the relationship between body and mind; believed that we cannot accept anything as being true unless we can clearly and distinctly perceive it; Cogito ergo sum
Who is Descartes?
400
The headline "DEATH OF A LADY AT SYDNEY PARADE" is taken from which story in Dubliners?
What is "A Painful Case"?
400
Example: "When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it." Bill Clinton
What is symploce?
400
The error in the following sentence: I will pass irregardless of your assistance.
What is a solecism?
400
A rhetorical device in which the speaker launches a litany of abuse.
What is bdelygmia?
500
Time and space are foremost modes of perception and not attributes of the physical world; made an important distinction between “the thing itself” and “the thing for me”; there are clear limits to what humans can know; moral law is a categorical imperative.
Who is Kant?
500
What holiday is it in the story "Clay"?
What is All Hallow's Eve?
500
Using subordination to show the relationship between clauses or phrases
What is hypotaxis?
500
The objective case of the most common relative pronoun in English.
What is whom?
500
According to Postman, what are popular because they "return us to a time when and where some powerful narrative still held sway and gave meaning to life"
What are theme parks?