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Satiric
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Appeals
Using Context and Quotes
Wildcard
100
Criticizing a problem in society using humor and/or irony
What is satire?
100
This term refers to an author's use of comparison (simile, metaphor, and personification) to convince an audience.
What is figurative language?
100
When using this appeal, a speaker shows his credibility to his audience
What is ethos?
100
When giving context in your essay, you should mind the GAP. These three letters represent these words.
What are genre, audience, and purpose?
100
The context for MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech is 100 years after this important proclamation.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
200
Saying one thing but meaning the other, when the audience knows something that one of the character's doesn't, and when the audience expects one thing to happen but an unexpected thing happens instead, respectively.
What are verbal, dramatic, and situational irony?
200
These are the three texts that an American audience holds dear, so when a speaker uses them, he creates ethos.
What are The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, and The Bible?
200
Using statistics, reasoning, facts, and mathematics is using this appeal.
What is logos?
200
1963, March on Washington, segregated America
What is the context for MLK's "I have a dream speech"
200
This is a pun.
What is (answers will vary)?
300
Trevor Noah created a parody of this song in The Daily Show.
What is "Let them know it's Christmas Time" or "Bandaid 2014"
300
When Steve Jobs ends his speech with the phrase, "Stay hungry. Stay foolish," he is using this syntactical device.
What is parallelism?
300
When MLK makes his audience feel ashamed of their lack of action in supporting desegregation in America, he is using this appeal.
What is pathos?
300
2005, Stanford University graduation
What is the context for Steve Jobs commencement speech?
300
This is the Greek philosopher that claimed the best persuasion was a mix of logos, pathos, and ethos.
Who is Aristotle?
400
These are the five strands of satire to consider when analyzing a text.
What are The What? The How? The Why? Effectiveness? and Relevancy?
400
When Mary Ewald refers to Allah and Arabic poetry, she is trying to endear herself to Saddam Hussein, using this rhetorical device.
What is cultural credibility?
400
Using very long sentences and then breaking the flow with a short sentence appeals to this.
What is pathos?
400
This is the problem with the following example of quote integration: "Stay hungry. Stay foolish" creates a thirst in the audience for adventure.
What is missing context?
400
This is the 19th century satirist that should have been Ms. Nash's husband.
Who is Mark Twain?
500
These are the two types of satire. The biting one and the smiling one, respectively.
What are Juvenalian and Horatian?
500
When Steve Jobs says, "Apple has grown from just the two of us in a garage into a 2 billion dollar company with over 4,000 employees," he is appealing to ethos and logos, using these two rhetorical devices, respectively.
What are "experience" and "cold, hard facts"
500
These are three cognates for the word pathos.
What are sympathy, empathy, and apathy?
500
These are the names and descriptions of three of the five quote integration strategies.
What is Straight up (tag and comma), Smooth move (grammatically connected to text), Hiccup (interrupted quote), Raindrop (single word), and That ain't mine, yo (paraphrase)
500
This is the English alphabet backwards.
What is ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA?