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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
This author claimed that today's youth are narcisisstic, even inventing logos to do it.
Who is Keith Ablow?
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 writes about the differences between the English in her writing and the English spoken by her mother, a Chinese immigrant.
Who is Amy Tan?
200
Meant to teach or instruct.
What is didactic?
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
The article "Eating Children: Satirically Speaking" alludes to this satirist.
Who is Jonathan Swift?
300
Stephanie Ericsson tells the whole truth about the ways we do this.
What is lie?
300
A sense that something bad is about to happen.
What is foreboding?
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
This leader of the NRA defended gun ownership in the face of recent calls for gun control.
Who is Wayne LaPierre?
400
He describes his life at Walden Pond.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
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
-The Onion- satirizes unprofessional coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing by this newspaper.
What is the New York Post?
500
M. Scott Momaday discusses his relationship to this Native American tribe?
What is the Kiowa?
500
So full of anger and hatred for the audience that it shows in the writing.
What is contemptuous?
500
What an audience is assumed to believe in order to persuade them that the data ties to the claim.
What is warrant?