Rhetoric and Argument
This is the rhetorical appeal that deals with facts and logic.
Logos
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
Thomas Jefferson (and Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman)
A man escapes slavery and works to liberate his people.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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This is the state Ms. Hoj taught in for two years.
Florida
This is the type of rhetorical appeal that deals with emotions.
Pathos
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,"
Emily Dickinson
A man watches as his neighbor pursues the man's married cousin.
The Great Gatsby
This is the minimum number of core values your college essay should include.
4
This is what Ms. Hoj wrote her college essay about.
Old Cemeteries
This is the type of rhetorical appeal that deals with credibility and authority.
Ethos
"But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it."
A boy searches for his mother, who is known for writing a controversial volume of poetry.
Our Missing Hearts
This is the name of the College Essay Guy, who wrote the yellow books.
Ethan Sawyer
This is the state Ms. Hojnoski is originally from.
Connecticut
This rhetorical term is defined as "a short story told to prove a point."
Anecdote
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
These two memoirs are written by former or current teachers.
Miseducated and Being Heumann
How many personal statement prompts exist on the Common App?
This is the name of Ms. Hoj's only sibling.
Tim/Timmy/Timothy
This rhetorical technique is defined as "a direct or indirect reference to a literary work (fiction, folklore, religious text) or to a place, person, or event."
Allusion
"Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?"
Address to General William Henry Harrison
Chief Tecumseh
Name all 5 memoir options.
The Glass Castle, Being Heumann, Crying in H-Mart, A Place Called Home, and Miseducated
Endodontics
This was Ms. Hoj's college minor.
Study of Women and Gender (SWaG--The "of" was ignored.)