Rhetoric Questions
Blast From the Past
What do you see?
Might Save Your Life
Wild Card
Home Sweet Home
100
The author, speaker, designer, composer of a text
What is the rhetor?
100
Abilities that you currently have to succeed in an area.
What is a skill?
100
In-text citations are an example of this rhetorical appeal.
What is invented ethos?
100
The email for the instructor of this course.
What is fmendez@uwm.edu
100
A couple of sentences intended to convey the overarching gist or most essential point of a text to a reader.
What is paraphasing?
100
UWM is the only school in the state with an all deaf faculty that uses this form of non-verbal communication.
What is American Sign Language?
200
The event, situation or issue that starts rhetorical discourse, or keep it going.
What is exigence?
200
Broad, overarching approaches to situation that individuals develop over time.
What is disposition?
200
This commercial is famous for using what rhetorical appeal?
What is Pathos?
200
Mixing the two common cleaning supply chemicals, ammonia and bleach, creates what deadly gas?
What is Mustard Gas?
200
Direct, exact, word-for-word uses of another text with quotation marks.
What is quotation?
200
This red-feathered bird was the original mascot of UWM before the Panther.
What is a cardinal?
300
The aims, goals, motives, or intentions of a text.
What is purpose?
300
The ability to use multiple different strategies to comprehend a text beyond its face value.
What is critical reading?
300
Companies and businesses take advantage of this when having Black Friday sales.
What is kairos?
300
During a grease fire, you should ____ to get the fire out.
What is smother/cover/use a fire extinguisher?
300
The ability to track down citations/references in a text's work cited page, bibliography, and referential material in the text.
Who is Citation Chasing?
300
In 2018, the Hollywood Reporter ranked this UWM program the 24th best in the nation.
What is the film program?
400
Rhetoric moves what is a private idea or belief into a public statement.
What is Rhetoric Assists Advocacy?
400
A concise restatement of another's work. Brief and accurate representations of someone else's ideas in your own words.
What is a summary?
400
The rhetorical appeal Mac used when identifying himself as a regular dude and an American.
What is situated ethos?
400
The three branches of government.
What is the legislative, judicial, and executive?
400
Detailed references to specific sources of the ideas and information you use in your writing?
What is a citation?
400
In 1965, this famous civil rights leader spoke in the Union Ballroom after the March on Milwaukee
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
500
The practice of rhetoric can provide a peaceful means for evaluating ideas publicly. To win acceptance for a concept, you have to advocate it.
What is Rhetoric Tests Ideas?
500
A strategy for writing effective summaries involves identifying multiple major topics addressed in the text and getting a "bird's eye view" of the reading.
What is chunking?
500
What game is this from? Be specific!!!
What is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe?
500
According to the American Heart Association, this song by the Bee Gees contains the BPM you should follow when performing CPR.
What is Stayin' Alive?
500
From Rhetoric Distributes Power. This is the ability to shape someone's thoughts.
What is physchological power?
500
The Emile H. Mathis Gallery in Mitchell Hall houses works by this cubist founder.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
600
Rhetoric's ability to influence decisions that gives it a form of social power.
What is Rhetoric Distributes Power?
600
The way we change our language based on context.
What is register?
600
The date Marvel vs. Capcom Collection came out.
When is September 11 (or 12), 2024?
600
When jump starting a dead battery, you connect the positive charge of the dead battery to what charge of the live battery?
What is positive?
600
A form of rhetoric distributes power that details what groups have the most power to speak compared to others.
What is political power?
600
UWM alumni (class of 90') Satya Nadella is CEO of this global tech company.
What is Microsoft?