Speech-making
The names of the five Canons of Rhetoric.
What are Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery?
A female Samurai from The Tale of Heike who displayed great bravery, loyalty, and skill in battle.
Who is Tomoe Gozen?
A phrase that begins with a preposition.
What is a prepositional phrase?
A comparison in which one thing is compared to a second seemingly unlike thing to show how they are similar. It does NOT use the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
The main idea or argument of an essay, oration, or discussion.
The three rhetorical appeals.
What are Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?
The judge who delivered the opening statement of the Nuremberg Trials.
Who is Robert H. Jackson?
A word or word group that is shortened by replacing one or more letters with an apostrophe (e.g., "isn't" for "is not").
What is a contraction?
The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words close together.
What is alliteration?
The type of paragraph which argues in support of the thesis.
What is confirmation?
The three branches of Rhetorical speech.
What are Judicial, Ceremonial, and Political?
The name of the blindfolded Roman goddess holding a pair of scales, the common symbol for Justice.
What is Justicia/Iusticia?
A sentence that lacks proper punctuation and should really be divided into separate clauses, either with punctuation or a conjunction.
What is a run-on sentence?
A pattern in which the words in the first half of a sentence are reversed in the second half of the sentence.
What is Chiasmus?
The type of paragraph which argues against an antithesis.
What is refutation?
Name at least three types of Common Topics.
What is definition, comparison of kind, comparison of degree, cause and effect, antecedent/consequence, contrary/contradictory, possible/impossible, past fact/future fact, testimony
This Italian labourer working at the Louvre stole the famous Mona Lisa.
Who is Vincenzo Peruggia?
This mark separates two independent clauses less harshly than a period.
What is a semicolon?
The repetition of synonyms to amplify a subject.
What is Synonymia?
The exercise which involves listing, cluster diagrams, and/or freewriting.
What is Prewriting/Brainstorming?
The five "virtues" of Style.
What are Correctness, Clarity, Vivid Description, Propriety, and Elegance?
She delivered the famous "Ain't I A Woman?" speech.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
A phrase that cannot stand alone and relies on a complete sentence to make grammatical sense.
What is a dependent/subordinate clause?
The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of each of a series of clauses or sentences.
What is Anaphora?
The name of the citation style which includes in-text citation and a Works Cited list.
What is MLA?