Rhetoric
Readings
Wildcard
100

This is the art of persuasion

What is rhetoric?

100

This is the name of the book that most of our readings were from.

What is Bad Ideas About Writing?

100

This person only learned last week that this was an eight week long course

Who is Kaitlyn Tibbetts? 

200

This is a rhetorical appeal that appeals to people's emotions in order to persuade them.

What is pathos?

200

I couldn't think of another reading question, so congrats, this is a freebie

What is a freebie?

200

The amount of time, per the syllabus policy, that Kaitlyn accepts late work in this course.

What is 24 hours?

300

This is a rhetorical appeal that utilizes credibility, ethics, or morals to persuade its audience

What is ethos?

300

These are the items on the cover of our digital textbook in Canvas.

What are green classroom desks?

300

This is a written or visual text that follows particular rules or patterns.

What is a genre?

400

This is a rhetorical tool that employs logic, reasoning, or evidence to persuade its audience.

What is logos?

400

This person wrote the essay on "Meaningful Peer Praise" that we read during week 3.

Who is Ron DePeter?

400

On our Canvas home page, what Peanuts character can be seen typing on a computer?

Who is Snoopy?

500

This person is known as the father of rhetoric and we literally never talked about him in class but his name was mentioned in our first reading, "Rhetoric is Synonymous With Empty Speech" lololol

Who is Aristotle? 

500

This is the genre that Kerry Dirk used to demonstrate genre conventions in the essay "Navigating Genres"

What is a ransom note?

500

This was my question of the day on the first day of class.

If you had to record a podcast, what's a topic you could talk about without having to do any research?