Arguments
The appeal to emotion
What is Pathos?
"A difficulty in imagining what it is like for someone else not to know something you know."
What is The Curse of Knowledge?
The Title of this poem by W.H. Auden which hasa the line "He was my North, my South, my East , and West"
What is Funeral Blues or Stop All The Clocks or Auden gave Roman Numeral Titles to his poems/these are the given popular shorthands of the poem.
The appeal to logic
What is logos?
Fill in the Blank:
This Richard Feynman quote ends “If you ever hear yourself saying, ‘I think I understand this,’ _____________"
What is: "that means you don't" understand it.
This minor Star Wars character's trading card appears in this title of Alice Notely's "face-melting" poem.
What is Congradulating Wedge?
the appeal to trust/character/credibility
"I was a farmer, a painter, a cop, and a Marine in Vietnam, so listen up!"
What is Ethos?
This "illusion, in which if you close your eyes and someone taps you a few times on the wrist, then on the elbow, and then on the shoulder, it feels like a string of taps running up the length of your arm,"
This allegedly shows that a person’s conscious experience of where the early taps fell depends on the location of the later taps.
What is The Rabbit Illusion?
The term for a line in poetry where the thought does not end where the line ends but continues onto the next line.
What is enjambment or enjambed?
The name of the man running for Alabama Agriculture Commisioner.
Dale Peterson
Packiging ideas into bigger and bigger units
such as "MDPHDRSVPCEOIHOP"
into "MD PHD RSVP CEO IHOP"
What is chunking?
The term for a line of poetry where the thought ends where the line ends, usually with a period or punctuation mark, or a natural pause.
What is an end-stopped line?
the process of combining information from various sources to create a new understanding or argument.
What is Synthesis?
One of the several strategies Pinker suggests for overcoming the curse of knowledge in our writing.
What is: show a draft to a friend, an editor, imagine the reader over your shoulder (not as helpful as one might think), put the essay away for a few weeks and come back to it...
This poetic rhythm is comprised of a line of poetry that contains 10 syllables witht two feet meaning syllables that follow a unstressed and then stressed rhythm: da-dun da-dun da-dun da-dun da-dun
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
What is iambic pentameter?