Writing/Speaking
Analysis
Rhetoric Trivia
This Class
100
When responding to a draft, ______-order concerns involve ideas, organization, development, and clarity.
What is higher?
100
These are the 3 appeals we have discussed in class.
What is ethos, pathos, and logos?
100
The art of Rhetoric dates back to the classical era in this country.
What is Greece?
100
This man is the author of the book Outliers.
Who is Malcolm Gladwell?
200
Your speeches should not be memorized or read, but should instead be performed in this style.
What is extemporaneous?
200
In a rhetorical analysis, you must consider both What is being said, and also this.
What is How it is being said?
200
Rhetoric involves the reading of these.
What are texts?
200
This is the total percentage of your grade that will be determined by major assignments.
What is 60%?
300
When using a direct quote in your writing, you are required to include these 3 pieces of information.
What are introduction, citation, and explanation?
300
This appeal is being used in the advertisement below: http://thebeautyblot.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/20120416-093520.jpg?w=640
What is ethos?
300
This Taxonomy begins with "Knowledge" and culminates with "Evaluation."
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
300
The acronym MLA stands for this citation system, which we use in this class.
What is Modern Language Association?
400
Its purpose is to give your reader a mental break between ideas.
What is a paragraph?
400
List 4 questions that should be asked when analyzing a visual text.
Who is the intended audience? What is included? What is purposely excluded? Of what elements is the visual text composed? How are these elements arranged? In what order do you read them? What kinds of assumptions & appeals do you see at work? What argument does the text make? What is the aim of that argument? How has the text’s form & message been shaped by its context?
400
When considering WHAT is being said in an argument, these 3 points should be addressed.
What is Content, Organization/Structure, & Expression/Style?
400
These are the titles for the 3 required texts for this class.
What is Outliers, Fast Food Nation, and The Nuts & Bolts of College Writing?
500
The University of Iowa's Speaking Center is located here.
What is the 4th floor of EPB?
500
This is the surrounding circumstances (social, political, cultural) that led to a text's creation and helped shape its message.
What is the occasion or context?
500
This is the definition of Rhetoric that I gave on the 2nd day of class.
What is “The art of persuasion by means of stylistic and structural techniques”?
500
This is the time and location of my office hours.
What is 12:30-2:00pm Tuesdays and Thursdays in 440 EPB?