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Foundations of Rhetoric
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The comparison of two items using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
The Daily Show featured a satirical piece criticizing the name of this NFL team.
Who are the Washington Redskins?
100
This civil rights activist writes a letter to white clergymen in Birmingham, Alabama, about the struggles there.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
Mocking to make a point: this describes the work done on Saturday Night Live.
What is satirical?
100
The three parts of the Aristotilean triangle.
What are speaker, audience, and subject?
200
A reference to a historical event, literary piece, or other commonly known moment/event/text.
What is an allusion?
200
This author chronicled her battle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Who is Laura Hillenbrand?
200
This author learned to read while in prison.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
Enthusicastically happy.
What is exuberant?
200
An appeal to credibility.
What is ethos?
300
The placement of two items next to each other to make a point.
What is juxtapositioning?
300
High school student Katie Atkinson reminded her fellow students that "You Are More Than" This.
What is a test score?
300
This author was avoided by women on the street because he was a large, young African-American man.
Who is Brent Staples?
300
Friendly.
What is amiable?
300
What Toulmin would call logos.
What is data?
400
Referring to a whole by one of its parts, as in "Lend me a hand!"
What is metonymy?
400
Admissions officers led by this university plan on making the application process more sane.
What is Harvard University?
400
This author described the challenges and advantages of speaking English at school and Spanish at home.
Who is Richard Rodriguez?
400
Silly, not at all serious.
What is frivolous?
400
The situation in which a communication takes place, it is one of the sides of the triangle.
What is context?
500
The specific lingo used by a specific group of people, like in the medical field, a specific sport, or a group that has similar word usage.
What is jargon?
500
Justine Sacco's stupid tweet ruined her life for a while, and this writer told us all about it.
Who is Jon Ronson?
500
In "A Modest Proposal," Jonathan Swift satirically suggests eating the children of this nation.
What is Ireland?
500
A word meaning "better than you," it literally comes from "looking down my nose."
What is supercilious?
500
What an audience is assumed to believe in order to persuade them that the data ties to the claim.
What is warrant?