Wicked
Two items that give Prospero his magical abilities
What are his staff and books?
Two definitions for the word "log"
What is a piece of wood and what is a journal of words?
Three characters who are subject to Prospero
Who are Ferdinand, Caliban, and Ariel?
An appeal to one's morals or to one's credibility
What is ethos?
The thing that brings about Caliban's quick allegiance change to Stephano.
What is alcohol?
The three parts of a trick according to the movie, The Prestige.
What are the pledge, the turn, and the prestige?
Type of diction: "There was the geometry of cocking a baseball cap; working theories on what jokes to laugh at and exactly how loud; and entire volumes devoted to the crossover dribble."
What is academic diction?
Even though Te-Nehisi and Bill are very different, Te-Nehisi thinks he and Bill are one with regards to this thing.
What is school and its unnaturalness?
An appeal to an audience's emotion
What is pathos?
The toy at the end of The Beautiful Struggle that shows that times have changed.
Te-Nehisi brought forth alchemy when he did this to express an understanding of both Knowledge and consciousness.
What is when he spit into the mic or rapped?
What are creative product and state of being and/or fakeness?
The reason Ferdinand is okay with his captivity.
What is the opportunity to be with Miranda?
Type of appeal: "Instead of supporting people that breed dogs, we will be adopting one from a local shelter which would save a dog's life."
What is ethos and/or pathos?
This is what is revealed by the last scene in The Prestige.
What is we don't want to see the cost of magic?
The difference between the way Angier and Borden do the transported man trick.
What is naturally vs. unnaturally?
The difference between "melting pot" and "salad bowl"
What are assimilation into a dominant culture and maintaining your identity in a mix of other cultures?
Te-Nehisi ultimately says the Knowledge corrupts them all, and turns them into this type of bird.
What is a vulture?
Type of appeal: "90% of students and teachers said they would prefer no school dress code. 100% of students prefer creativity over conformity."
What is logos?
The advice Atticus gives to Scout in how to get along with other people.
What is seeing the world from someone else's shoes or in their skin?
What is drop it into the ocean depths?
Two arenas in which the word "motive" or "motivation" is used.
Where are the courtroom and the theatre?
In the epilogue, Prospero ("but release me from these bands, with the help of your good hands") reveals that he is imprisoned and subject to this.
Who is the audience?
Type of appeal: "We need to go to the Salt Flats because it will be the last time for our family to make memories. Remember the time when..."
What is pathos?
When talking about acquiescence, MLK makes an allusion to this group of people, and the thing they need to go through in order to be free.
Who are the Israelites and what is the Red Sea?