Tools used to persuade others in speech or writing
What is Rhetoric
100
An author's word choice
What is diction
100
When a word or phrase is used several times within a text.
What is repitition
100
Looking at similarities and differences between events
What is comparison
100
Using sources, especially primary sources, to create an argument.
What is using historical evidence
200
The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding the text.
What is the context
200
Using language and details to appeal to any of the five senses
What is imagery
200
Repetition of the same words or ideas within a sentence of passage - this shows that the two ideas of are equal importance.
What is Parallel Structure
200
The way historians break the past into separate chunks of time, with some big turning point marking the beginning and another turning point marking the end of each chunk.
What is periodization
200
Historians try to explain the past, how or why things changed, and why those changes matter.
What is historical argumentation
300
The specific time and place the text was written or spoken
What is the occasion
300
A question that is asked, but not meant to be answered aloud.
What is a rhetorical question
300
A short personal story
What is an anecdote
300
This skill is about how or why changes take place, and uses several methods to explain. Those methods include:
>Large Processes
>Multiple Causes
>Unintended consequences
>Contingency
What is historical causation
300
When historians evaluate sources, points of view, and context to come to a greater understanding of an event.
What is historical interpretation
400
The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience, which is different than who the speaker is in real life.
What is a persona
400
A reference to history, famous literature, or the bible.
What is an allusion
400
Comparing two things to show that they are similar
What is an analogy
400
Looking at what changes, but also the types of things that stay the same for long periods of time.
What is patterns of continuity and change
400
Connecting specific events or texts to the circumstances surrounding them. (You can use SOAPStone to help do this skill)
What is contextualization
500
What are ALL THREE points on the Rhetorical triangle?
What are speaker, audience, and subject.
500
An idea, symbol, or image that is repeated throughout a text.
What is a motif
500
The three rhetorical appeals.
**Any team that includes all three AND one word to tell me what each appeal means will get points.
What is Ethos (credibility), Pathos (feelings), and Logos (logic)
500
Using all of the other historical thinking skills to create your own argument and understanding of history, pulling from many sources.
What is synthesis
500
There are four groups of Historical Thinking Skills. Each group has at least two skills that fall under it - which group has THREE skills?