I'd Like An Argument
Purple Prose
Rhetorical Questions
More Words To Know
At the Movies
100
An appeal to emotion.
What is Pathos (Pathetic)?
100
When someone has a strongly held set of opinions or beliefs, often political.
What is ideological?
100
In rhetoric, a comparison between two things typically on the basis of their structure for the purpose of explanation or clarification. (For example: When Forest Gump compares life to a box of chocolates.)
What is an analogy?
100
The person or people a speech or piece of writing is intended for.
Who are your audience?
100
This Pixar movie, a sequel about the fish in the sea, will be in theaters next summer.
What is Finding Dory?
200
An appeal to the credibility of the speaker or subject.
What is Ethos (Ethics)?
200
To make or give a comically groteseque exaggeration of someone.
What is a caricature?
200
In rhetoric, the principle, provision or chain of reasoning that connects the evidence/reason to the claim.
What is warrant?
200
Something deserving praise or commendation.
What is laudable?
200
This is the most controversial part for fanboys in the new trailer for Star Wars:The Force Awakens movie. (Hint: It's not the black stormtrooper.)
What is the new lightsaber?
300
An argument in which you attack the other person instead of his or her claim or evidence.
What is Ad-Hominem fallacy?
300
The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. Literally, "to come before."
What is an antecedent?
300
In rhetoric, it means giving two or more parts successive sentences in a similar form creating a definite pattern. "Wounds caused by knives will heal, wounds caused by words will not heal."
What is parallelism/parallel structure?
300
The duplication of a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern.
What is repetition?
300
This is Disney's next animated feature that will have a world with only animals living like humans.
What is Zootopia?
400
In argument when you limit the choices or options to extremes with no middle ground or "gray area."
What is Black or White fallacy?
400
A clause that contains a subject and a verb, but cannot stand on its own. Hint: Santa's Helper
What is a subordinate clause?
400
In rhetoric, having the main clause or predicate at the end of a sentence to create emphasis. "Because she studied, Juanita passed the test." "In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued."
What is a periodic sentence?
400
Relating to the use of the brain or one's intellect.
What is cerebral?
400
This movie featuring DC comics villains who come together in a group is currently filming.
What is Suicide Squad?
500
When a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.
What is a Strawman fallacy?
500
A sentence containing two independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
500
When writing a free-response argument in answer to a prompt, the author must choose to do one of the following. (Hint: it's another way of saying agree or disagree.)
What is defend or challenge?
500
To hold or express opinions different (at variance) with those that are commonly held.
What is dissent?
500
When Sony Pictures emails were recently hacked, it was revealed that a studio head thought this about Angelina Jolie.
What is that she is spoilled and has no talent?