Paul Sperry and Charles Krauthammer endorse this practice for identifying people who should be considered security threats.
What is profiling?
100
The title of King's essay can be described as...
What is a bold statement?
100
The tone of King's essay can be described in this way.
What is "angry"?
100
A rhetorical strategy that uses examples to explain or elaborate an idea.
What is Illustration/exemplification?
200
Krauthammer gives this name to the region that stretches from Mauritania to Indonesia, an extremely large region that is home to many of the world's Muslim population.
What is the Islamic belt?
200
King uses _________ to present the arguments given by other for the need for racial profiling.
What are direct quotations?
200
Colbert King uses __________ when enumerating a number of white terrorists to amplify his point.
What is a list?
200
A rhetorical strategy where you convince others through reasoning.
What is argumentation/persuasion?
300
Colbert King claims that a pass (as not dangerous) will be given to all white people if this ethnic group is removed from profiling lists.
What is Scandinavian?
300
Colbert King weakens justifications for racial profiling by contrasting acts of terrorism conducted by Muslim terrorists with terrorist acts committed by what other group?
Who are white terrorists?
300
When King writes "In Krauthammer's worldview, it's all quite simple: Ignore him and his son; suspect me and mine" (185), he uses this device.
What is contrast?
300
A rhetorical strategy that breaks one item into meaningful parts and then examines the parts in relationship to the whole.
What is division?
400
Timothy McVeigh's terrorist attacks were on this US city.
What is Oklahoma?
400
_________ is Colbert King's thesis in this essay.
What is "Racial profiling is racist"?
400
In his final paragraph King asks "You want estrangement?" (186). This is an example of this particular kind of question.
What is a rhetorical question?
400
A rhetorical strategy where a writer uses storytelling frequently paired with specific and concrete description in an essay for an expressive purpose.
What is narration?
500
Colbert Kings suggests that muslims can be of this racial background.
What is any racial background?
500
King's concluding statement, "What the racial profilers are proposing is insulting, offensive and-by thought, word and deed, whether intentional or not-racist. You want estrangement? Start down that road of using ethnicity, national origin and religion as a basis for police action and there's going to be a push-back unlike any seen in this country in many years" (186), can be described as leaving the reader with what kind of advice?
What is cautionary?
500
"As for sweaty, fidgety, knapsack-bearing, overcoat-wearing young women who happen to be black, brown or yellow" (King 185), is an example of __________ for rhetorical effect.
What is description? What is exaggeration?
500
Strong description relies on these to create an impression the reader can experience.
What are sensory details—what we see, hear, taste, smell, and feel?