One Big Move
Punctuation
Strategies
Diction
FINAL JEOPARDY
100

This big move places the speaker and audience into one group and opposes them with another defined group.

What is Us vs. Them?

100

This punctuation mark separates two sentences where one of them explains the other.

What is a colon?  :

100

The juxtaposition of two topics to highlight their differences and similarities.

What is compare and contrast?

100

This word means "a devoutly religious person who combats religious dissent."

What is Inquisitor?

200

The Inquisitor uses this often to make the audience more amicable, for example when they say "You are all, I hope, merciful men: how else could you have devoted your lives to the service of our Gentle savior?"

What is praise?

200

The Inquisitor uses these punctuation marks towards the end of their speech to emphasize their point about the cruelty of heresy.

What are dashes? -

200

The Inquisitor uses this strategy when they say the phrase "therefore be on your guard" multiple times, and they do the same with "if you hate cruelty."

What is repetition?

200

The Inquisitor repeats this word, meaning "belief contrary to religious doctrine" often in their speech to appeal to the audience's religious values.

What is heresy?

300

In heavily leaning on religious imagery and diction, the Inquisitor appeals to this.

What are the audience's values?

300

The use of commas to connect two nouns which define each other.

What is an appositive? ,

300

These are the three corners of the rhetorical triangle.

What are ethos, pathos, and logos?

300

The Inquisitor uses this word to describe Joan and her "excesses" as "lacking in quality and sophistication."

What is Worldliness?

400

In telling the audience that "you must be on your guard against your natural compassion," and telling them to "remember that nothing is so cruel in its consequences as the toleration of heresy," the Inquisitor poses themself as doing this.

What is advice / warning?

400

A semicolon connects two related ones of these.

What is an independent clause?

400

The contrast of information that the audience knows with what the speaker is saying, often to comedic effect.

What is irony?

400

This word that the Inquisitor uses means "devoutly religious," and is used to emphasize that Joan only appears benevolent.

What is pious?

500

The Inquisitor inspires fear in the audience with diction like "heresy" and "diabolical madnesses," an example of this.

What is fearmongering?

500

The dash can take the place of these three different punctuation marks, depending on the context.

What are commas, parentheses, and colons? ,():

500

A figure in which the speaker poses a question or multiple questions, then immediately answers them.

What is hypophora?

500

The Inquisitor uses this word to describe Joan, meaning "the quality of lacking inhibition." 

What is wantonness?

500

"God forbid that I should tell you to harden your hearts; for her punishment if we condemn her will be so cruel that we should forfeit our own hope of divine mercy were there one grain of malice against her in our hearts." In this quote, the Inquisitor inspires the audience to feel what emotion for Joan?

What is pity?

(Or maybe something else if you make a really good point but I still probably won't give it to you)