Name that Text
"Who are you?"
"Felix. Who are you?"
"What are you doing?"
"I'm about to burn this motherf*cker down. What are you doing?"
"He said you weren't Black, too."
"My parents are from Nigeria. I was born there, but I don't even remember it. I'm from Lithonia. Hmm."
"...Listen, I really don't care anymore. I'm burning the school down. Excuse me"
Donald Glover - Episode of Atlanta
What is the second level of Stasis?
1: Fact
2: Definition
3: Quality
4: Policy
Anyone who has a 'Wooden Post' in a topic. These people are directly affected by the issues and outcomes of a certain topic.
Stakeholder
What Disney fairytale did we read about and examine through the lens of many different versions across many different cultures and time periods?
Cinderella
Name Three US Presidents who have been shot and/or assassinated
Lincoln (1865), Garfield (1881), McKinley (1901), Kennedy (1963), Teddy Roosevelt (1912), Reagan (1981), Trump (2024)
I was out on the road when I received this surprising news, and it took me more than a few minutes to properly process it. I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn’t have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read. When he was writing Hamlet, I’m sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: “Who’re the right actors for these roles?” “How should this be staged?” “Do I really want to set this in Denmark?” His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. “Is the financing in place?” “Are there enough good seats for my patrons?” “Where am I going to get a human skull?” I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare’s mind was the question “Is this literature?”
Bob Dylan - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Of the three main rhetorical appeals we discussed, this one has to do with 'authority' and perceived 'character'
Ethos
an inclination towards understanding something in one way instead of another. Usually, BY the way you have been conditioned to see or think about something.
Bias
You need this kind of indentation on your works cited page?
Hanging!
Name one of the first three Taylor Swift songs to chart on the Billboard top 100
Tim McGraw, Our Song, and Teardrops on My Guitar
"She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel.
"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to
shoot her every minute of her life."
"Some fun!" Bobby Lee said.
"Shut up, Bobby Lee" The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.
Flannery O'Connor - "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
I check my watch, the one named after a Greek god. What time is it? Something important was supposed to happen now: not earlier, and not later. Right now.
(what concept am I referencing?)
Kairos - a sense of timeliness and an awareness to deliver a particular message in a particular circumstance that should impact the audience in an optimal fashion.
Basically, the importance of time to a rhetorical situation
The lesson on this topic taught Mr. Stansell the dangers of old social media posts and led to him scheduling an extra therapy session that week.
In this case, it involves creating a common enemy in order to influence a group of people
Definition: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Propaganda
Margaret Atwood wrote that this thing follows you around wherever you go in our modern world, like 'Hell' in Christopher Marlowe's play Dr. Faustus
Debt
what was the LAST state to join the U.S., and in what century did this happen?
Hawaii, in 20th century (1959)
"In recent years, crime’s impresarios have diversified their activities and modernized their methods. Now they not only engage in extortion, murder, pimping, and smuggling, but also own distilleries, hotels, casinos, banks, and supermarkets. They use the latest-model machineguns and accounting machines. Engineers, economists, and publicity experts direct the teams of technicians that avoid waste of resources and ensure a constant rise in profits.
Al Capone chairs the board of the most lucrative company in the game. He earns a hundred million dollars a year."
NAME AUTHOR/BOOK OR THE FAMOUS HISTORICAL EVENT THIS READING LATER DESCRIBES (not here, later)
Eduardo Galeano - Century of the Wind
(The Great Depression)
The three sides of our Rhetorical Triangle
Speaker, Subject, Audience
This term refers to the issue, problem, or situation that prompts someone to write or speak. It's the underlying reason, or the thing that causes a message to be created. Essentially, it's the "why" behind a piece of communication.
Exigence
Stansell compared current debates over A.I. and labor to those surrounding machines during this major event in history
Industrial Revolution
What was the Largest Battle of the Civil War? And what state was it fought in?
Battle of Gettysburg - Pennsylvania
"The "symbol-using animal," yes, obviously. But can we bring ourselves to realize just what that formula implies, just how overwhelmingly much of what we mean by "reality" has been built up for us through nothing but our symbol-systems?Take away our books, and what little do we know about history, biography, even something so "down to earth" as the relative position of seas and continents? What is our "reality" for today (beyond the paper-thin line of our own particular lives) but all this clutter of symbols about the past combined with whatever things we know mainly through maps, magazines, newspapers, and the like about the present?"
Kenneth Burke, "Definition of Man"
What is an 'enthymeme'?
an incomplete syllogism (a set of premises & conclusions), through which a rhetor invites an audience to complete the syllogism and, hopefully, agree with the point being made
The classic textbook example: Socrates is human. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
Features of this still show up constantly all the time in our art, film, and media.
Surrealism
Mr. Stansell proposed we should pass this law in order to cut down on Teenage car accidents and make the roads safer.
Outlaw the use of seatbelts for anyone under 25 years of age.
Name the song based only on the sheet music (on slide)
Jeopardy Theme Song