This final exam will be open book. You may bring your text, notes, and any other material you desire—but please do not copy words from the internet. I want to hear from you, using language that reflects your exposure to this course. Adjust the exam spacing to fit your responses into it. Write well, because this will affect your grade. The exam will begin at 7:45-AM on May 22, Wednesday Room GE-111, and will close at 10:15-AM. The exam assignment will be released to you as soon as class starts. Download it and complete it on your own device or computer, then send it into Canvas for grading. Answer as many questions as you can. If you finish early you are free to leave. If you can’t respond to a question, move on to another and return to try again. Let me know if there are any issues or open questions. Please check in with me before you leave the room so that I can note your attendance noted. Blessings and good luck!!
AA Pino
Instructor of English
Good luck, and thanks for being in my class. A. A. Pino.
MANDATORY RESPONSES:
Write one paragraph responding to each prompt:
Essay No. 1:
In the film Crash, Detective Graham states: “It’s the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.” Graham’s detective/girlfriend, Ria, rejects this idea, suggesting he’s “lost his frame of reference.” The film then proceeds to describe various societal “crashes” (or conflicts). Write a paragraph stating Graham’s claim and describing two such conflicts that validate his point of view. (Note: A “crash” doesn’t have to be a literal event). (50 points)
Essay No. 2:
We read two novels for this class, Fahrenheit 451 and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Each implied that there was a “better way,”or an “ideal state” that could overcome the protagonists’ problems and struggles. Write a paragraph describing that ideal state for one of these novels. Show the problems that could be corrected in this ideal state. (What would that society look like in an ideal condition?) (50 points)
MANDATORY VOCABULARY RESPONSES:
Write no more than three sentences describing the meaning of each of these words in the context of rhetoric:
enthymeme (20 points)
euphemism (20 points)
paralipsis (20 points)
Toulminian Argument (20 points)
Rogerian Argument (20 points)
PICK-AND-CHOOSE VOCABULARY RESPONSES:
In any order you choose, write no more than two sentences on 20 remaining words and concepts on the vocabulary list provided in the attachment. (10 points each)
STANDING VOCABULARY – ENGLISH 001C-113 CRITICAL THINKING
The Red List
Claim of fact
Collocation
Claim of policy
Preemption
XXXXRogerian argument
mise en scene
Aristotelian argument
Amorphous
XXXXXToulminian argument
Magnate
Syllogism
accoutrements
Major premise
Nuance
Minor premise
critical pedagogy
XXXXXEuphemism
Spruce Goose
Horatio Alger
Rubric
Christ figure
explication
Claim of value
quid pro quo
Rhetorical triangle
malevolent
XXXXenthymeme
Catharsis
Inductive reasoning
title block
Deductive reasoning
Title casing
Ad hominem
Sinister
Connotation
Pathetic fallacy
Denotation
Title block
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Collocation
Concession
George Carlin
Kairos
Parenthetical citation
Stipulation
Anathema
Slanted language
Prophetic
Ought to/must/need to/
Appollo 11
Card-stacking
Juxtaposition
The limits of argument
Anthropocentric
Slippery slope
Claim of value
Hanging indentation
The money river
XXXXParalipsis
Demonstration [or demonstrative] morality
