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Modes of Persuasion
Grammar/Usage
Classmate Trivia
Academic Writing Genres
Writing Tricks & Tools
100
This Greek word means “opportunity” or “the right time and place”
What is Kairos
100
This punctuation mark is used in contractions or to signify possession
What is an apostrophe?
100
This student plays goalie for a U of M sports team.
Who is Tara?
100
This essay genre includes a discussion of feasibility
What is a proposal?
100
This phase in the writing process includes brainstorming, freewriting, and outlining
What is prewriting?
200
Translated from the Greek, this rhetorical appeal means “authority”
What is ethos
200
When “however” is used as a conjunctive adverb, in can be punctuated with a period and a comma, a semi-colon and a comma, or these punctuation marks
What are two commas?
200
This student is vice president of the U of M Waterski Team
Who is Jillian?
200
This is another word for finding “a hidden story"
What is synthesis?
200
When an author replaces several vague words with more powerful and specific words, interrogates every word in a sentence to make sure it is essential, and combines sentences when necessary, they are doing this
What is making a sentence more concise?
300
According to Crowley and Hawhee, style is comprised of appropriateness, correctness, clarity and this
What is ornamentation?
300
This is the first letter of the verb meaning “to influence,” not to be confused with the noun that means “a result"
What is the letter "a"?
300
Both of these students have twins
Who are Roni and Asia?
300
The process of breaking a topic or article into smaller parts
What is analysis?
300
This revising technique is especially useful when a paper is not clearly organized
What is a reverse outline?
400
This thinker is credited with identifying ethos, pathos, and logos as the key rhetorical appeals
Who is Aristotle?
400
The semi colon has the following uses: to join two independent clauses, to join two independent clauses when the second clause begins with a conjunctive adverb, and this
What is to separate items in a series or list?
400
This student turned in his/her assignments first approximately 70% of the time
Who is Steve?
400
Two (of many) ways of critically engaging an argument
What is complicating, amplifying, clarifying, refutation, finding a counter example, or critiquing evidence?
400
These are five (of many) verbs that effectively introduce quotations
What are argue, assert, believe, claim, emphasize, insist, observe, report, suggest, acknowledge, admire, agree, corroborate, do not deny, endorse, extol, praise, reaffirm, support, verify, complain, complicate, contend, contradict, deny, disavow, question, refute, reject, renounce, repudiate, advocate, call for, demand, encourage, exhort, implore, plead, recommend, urge, or warn?
500
This trope is used when a person/thing is not referred to by name, but by a word/phrase that is closely associated with it, such as when the president of the United States is referred to as “the White House”
What is metonymy?
500
The usage problem represented by this sentence: “Although the motorcycle hit the tree, it was not damaged.”
What is vague pronoun use?
500
One of the two students who hold the record for writing Hannah the most emails ☺
Who are Jennifer and Steph?
500
This sort of argument makes the case for the complexity and relevance of a topic
What is an exigence argument?
500
The practice of drawing the intensity of an argument is inspired by this author’s line-drawings of the The Metamorphosis and Cinderella
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?