Rhetoric
History
Frederick Douglass
The Scarlet Letter
Pop Culture
100

The three main rhetorical appeals according to Aristotle are ethos, pathos, and ________.

logos

100

Martin Luther King was the leader of what movement in the 1950s and 1960s?

Civil Rights Movement

100

The state that Frederick Douglass is born in.

Maryland

100

The religious group that persecutes Hester Prynne.

The Puritans

100

An extended "beef" that even involved "dis" tracks between Kendrick Lamar and this Canadian rapper.

Drake

200

The rhetorical _________ (shape).

Triangle

200

The year that America gained independence from Great Britain.

1783

200

The city Frederick Douglass was shipped to at the age of eight.

Baltimore

200

In the eyes of many in Hester's community, the letter A upon her dress no longer stood for "Adulterer" but this:

Able

200

This genre of music features a boy band that went on hiatus due to compulsory military service. 

K-pop

300

This argument framework examines what is lost and what is gained.

Cost-Benefit Analysis

300

The name of this scandal refers to the burglary and illegal wiretapping of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the 1970s.

Watergate

300

The man that was most likely Frederick Douglass' father.

His first "owner", Aaron Anthony

300

Dimmesdale was educated at this university.

Oxford

300

Kamala Harris overhauled her campaign's online presence by embracing a trend inspired by pop star Charli XCX's album of this name.

Brat

400

A type of parallelism that repeats a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.

Anaphora

400

The name of the Native American tribe originally encountered by the Pilgrims.

The Nauset Band of the Wampanoag Nation

400

Frederick Douglass describes this as ultimately the key to his liberation.

Reading

400

The night that Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl meet upon the scaffold, a celestial phenomenon that resembles the letter A is observed in the sky. The next day, we learn that the Puritan community sees the A as standing for this word.

Angel

400

This artist performed in Super Bowl LVIII

Usher

500

PAPA stands for the following:

Persona, Audience, Purpose, Argument

500

In Japanese history, what was a rönin?

A wandering Samurai

500

At eight years old, Frederick Douglass' primary job in his new home with the Auld's in Baltimore is to take care of__________. 

Little Thomas Auld

500

What is revealed to be underneath Dimmesdale's shirt toward the end of the novel?

The letter A

500

This NBA team has the most championships.

Boston Celtics