This color is symbolic of royalty, creativity, and can be used to describe extravagant language.
What is purple?
100
The use of logic in an argument.
What is logos?
100
This fallacy often shows famous actors or athletes testifying to the greatness of a product about which they may know very little.
What is False Authority?
100
In this reading, one man claimed to be responsible for the rebuilding of Beale Street.
What is "John Elkington and the Remaking of Beale Street?"
100
The name of the final page of a researched document, listing all the sources referenced within the work.
What is a Works Cited page?
200
This Seattle based coffee company is constantly under fire for their "War on Christmas".
What is Starbucks?
200
The use of emotion in an argument.
What is pathos?
200
This fallacy tries to persuade readers by suggesting they are thoughtful, intelligent or perceptive enough to agree with the writer.
What is Flattery?
200
This author always ended their articles with the phrase "I am a Memphian."
Who is Dan Conaway?
200
The format style used for papers in the English department.
What is MLA?
300
This animal conserves energy by sleeping for an average of 13 to 14 hours a day.
What is a cat?
300
The speaker or writer's character, credibility, and authority.
What is ethos?
300
This fallacy makes a personal attack rather than focusing on the issue at hand.
What is Ad Hominem?
300
This article was published in 1892, and questioned the tactics used to portray African Americans by the white press.
What is "The Malicious and Untruthful White Press?"
300
This describes how we combine multiple different ways of communicating in every day life.
What is multimodal?
400
This wrestler's known for his entrance and his attire, traditionally a long leather trench coat and hat, although he did spend some time driving a motorcycle around the ring during his career at the WWE.
Who is The Undertaker?
400
A propitious moment for decision or action.
What is kairos?
400
This fallacy bases a conclusion on too little evidence or on bad or misunderstood evidence.
What is Hasty Generalization?
400
This article highlighted the struggle of a Memphis football player who couldn't read beyond a second grade level when he first started college.
What is "The Education of Dasmine Cathey?"
400
The kind of skills and facility necessary to exploit the full communicative potential of new electronic media such as multimedia, hypermedia, social software, and virtual worlds.
What is Electracy?
500
This state is the birth state of President Gerald R. Ford, the state bird is the robin, has over 116 lighthouses, and has the longest fresh water coastline of all fifty states, except for Alaska.
What is Michigan?
500
Of the three elements in the rhetorical triangle, this one is always at the top of the triangle.
What is logos?
500
This fallacy attempts to tie together two or more logically unrelated ideas as if they were related.
What is a Non Sequitur?
500
This article was first published on the Smithsonian magazine website, and touched on the many unique nuances of Memphis, and reminds readers to cherish the city.
What is "The Soul of Memphis?"
500
These are the five modes that exist in multimodal texts.
What is Visual, Linguistic, Aural, Gestural, and Spatial?