Commrc 0310 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

COMMRC 0310 Study Questions with Correct Answers language designed to make the ordinary seem extraordinary, to make everyday things seem impressive, and to give importance to people, situations, or things that would not usually be considered important - Answer-inflated language which of the following is not one of the general topoi (want to keep moving forward to construct rhetorical arguments) - Answer-stalemate- a point at which each party just contradicts one another T or F: burden o...

COMMRC 0310 Exam Questions with Correct Answers How do Keith and Lundberg define rhetoric? - Answer-the study of producing discourses and interpreting how, when, and why discourses are persuasive Who were the Sophists and why were they important? - Answer-The Sophists were a group of wandering Sicilians that taught Athenians how to speak persuasively with the goal of navigating the courts and senate. They were important because Athenian citizens relied heavily on public speech to deal with...

COMMRC 0310 Final Exam Questions and Answers What marks goal-directed discourse? - Answer-careful selection of symbols, construction of appeals and engagement of listeners and readers as feeling and valuing beings as well as thinking beings. Are the appeals of rhetoric adapted, universal, or neutral appeals? - Answer-Adapted What are Gregg's six basic patterns of human perception and what do they mean? - Answer-1. The principle of edging or formulating boundaries. The brain perceives dat...

COMMRC 0310 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers All Correct Two senses of the word rhetoric - Answer-Rhetoric as an action and as a perspective Two things do we do when we engage in rhetorical action - Answer-Make a conscious decision to communicate and make conscious choices about the strategies we employ Two key terms involving rhetoric as a process - Answer-Process and symbolism Times when we focus on the process of symbolism rather than the content - Answer- When we analyze how ...

COMMRC 0310 Final Test Questions and Answers All Correct Burke's idea that we do not directly engage our environment but act upon it through language, mathematics, art, and other systems is called what? - Answer-symbolic action Burke's method of bringing fresh insight to the analysis of conventional problems by juxtaposing unfamiliar or even opposed terms, metaphors, or images is called what? - Answer-perspective by incongruity The idea that special insight into one area might end u...

COMMRC0310 Final Dr. Bannon Exam Marking Scheme Define figure. Define trope - Answer -Figure: Creative arrangements of words in phrases or sentences that catch the audience's attention and focus it on your key ideas Trope: A substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase Why do the authors argue that "no language is neutral or unadorned"? - Answer -Everything that is said or written is dependent on multiple meanings, play, and artifice used to persuade people A fu...

COMMRC 0310 FINAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS Plato View of Reality - Answer-Have to look beyond physical world Aristotle View of Reality - Answer-Look at world before us Aristotle 5 Subjects - Answer-Physics Metaphysics Nicomachean Ethics Politics The soul and poetics 4 Ways to Create Ethos - Answer-Actions Deeds Understanding Expertise Enhancing with Pathos - Answer-Combine with ethos or logos First sophists - Answer-People wanted to use rhetoric to con people Alea I...

COMMRC0310 Dr. Bannon Exam Questions Complete Answers What are the ways in which meaning emerges in rhetoric? - Answer -Language use is based on experience Perceptual patterns emerge from our experiences Language contains frameworks for conceptualizing what we experience Meaning emerges from the interaction among symbols in the context of use How do language choices impact meaning? - Answer -Grammar (space between terms, passive/active voice, word order) Vocabulary (denotation and con...

COMMRC0310 Dr. Bannon Exam Questions Complete Answers