Rhetoric
Exam Structure
Essays
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100

These are the elements of the rhetorical triangle. 

What is speaker, audience, and purpose? 

100

This is how long you have on the multiple choice section of the exam. 

What is one hour? 

100

This is how many sources you MUST cite in order to score higher than a 2 on the synthesis essay. 

What is 3? 

100

This is an anecdote. 

What is a personal story? 

100

This is bandwagon. 

What is an appeal that assumes something is true (or right or good) because others agree with it?

200

These are the three rhetorical appeals. 

What are ethos, pathos, and logos? 

200

This is how long you have on the essay portion of the exam, including the extra time for prompts. 

What is 2 hours and 15 minutes? 

200
This is what you should look for when reading through the rhetorical analysis prompt. 

What are choices the author/speaker makes to achieve his/her purpose with the audience? 

200

This is parallelism. 

What is the use of successive constructions in grammatical structure? 

200

This is juxtaposition.

What is placing two unlike situations, ideas, etc. side by side for comparison? 

300

This is an emotional appeal. 

What is pathos? 

300

This is how much time you should spend on each essay. 

What is 40 minutes? 

300

This is how many examples you need for the argument essay. 

What is 3? 

300

This is satire. 

What is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues?

300

This is a slippery slope. 

What is assuming that a certain course of action will necessarily lead to a chain of future events?

400

This is an appeal to reason. 

What is logos? 

400

This is the order in which the essay prompts will be on the exam. 

What is synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and argument? 

400

This is what you should end EVERY body paragraph with. 

A connection back to the thesis. 

400

This is colloquial. 

What is ordinary or familiar type of conversation and/or word choice?

400

This is ad hominem. 

What is a fallacy that attacks the person instead of the argument?

500

This is an appeal to shared beliefs. 

What is ethos? 

500

This is the essay you should start with. 

What is whichever essay you feel the best about?

500

This is how long you should spend of the 15 minute reading period on each prompt. 

What is 8, 5, 2? 

500

This is hypophora. 

What is a figure of reasoning in which one or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker? 

500

This is synecdoche. 

What is a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa?