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CMN 1 Final Exam Questions and Answers
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CMN 1 Final ExamPresentation aids are to be used to:
a) enhance clarity
b) help your audience retain information
c) add interest/variety
d) All of the above
e) All of the above plus many more reasons - Answer -d
If a speaker decides that his or her specific purpose will be to provide new arguments and information in
order to persuade his or her listeners, this is a sign of:
a) adapting well to a favorable audience
b) adapting well to a hostile audience
c) adapting well to a neutral audience
d) all of the above
e) none of the above - Answer -c
Persuasion can be best discussed as:
a) motivating the audience to action
b) using appeals to alter audience attitudes
, c) increasing the audience's commitment to your central idea
d) arguing on the basis of fact, not policy
e) alterations of audience attitude and belief - Answer -c
If a visiting professor is asked to give a lecture on a topic she is unfamiliar with and finds that during her
speech she does not know enough facts and gives inaccurate information, the professor is most likely
experiencing problems with which of Cicero's canons of rhetoric?
a) memory
b) style
c) delivery
d) arrangement
e) invention - Answer -e (inadequate preparation = invention)
As described in both lecture and the book, the term logos refers to:
a) pure logic
b) eloquence
c) the content, structure and style of the speech
d) the physical, social and emotional space where the communication takes place
e) all of the above - Answer -c
The Rhetoric of Aristotle functions - Answer -upholding truth
teaching an audience
analyzing both sides of a question
defending oneself
What are Aristotle's three interconnected components of successful persuasion? - Answer -ethos,
pathos and logos
Ethos - Answer -the credibility of the speaker; comprised of good sense, good moral character and
goodwill
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