Burkean Lens Quiz

Burke says man is "rotten with __________".

• Guilt

• Meaning

• Perfection

• Hierarchy

When Bono proposes one percent of federal aid to Africa as a way to resolve guilt, which rhetorical strategy is he using to persuade his audience, according to the Burkean lens?

• Guilt

• Scapegoating

• Identification

• Atonement

• Purpose

When a rhetor is accused of wrongdoing and responds by accusing the media of making false claims, he is using what strategy:

• Mortifying

• Scapegoating

• Creating victimage

• Categorizing

Kenneth Burke is known as:

• The father of idealism

• The inventor of the concept of mortification

• The inventor of the negative

• The voice of rhetoric

When Diane Sawyer begins her documentary about eastern Kentucky by stating that she is from Kentucky, a state that she loves, she is “courting” her audience by:

• Identifying with Kentuckians

• Dividing with those who would seek to stereotype

• Both A and B

• B only

When the rhetor assumes blame or accepts the blame alongside the audience, they are using which rhetorical strategy?.

• Mortification

• Scapegoating

• Victimage

• Atonement

"Charity," "Justice," and "Grace" are abstract terms used by Bono to classify and rank behaviors. What are these words called according to Burke's lens?

• Victimage terms

• Hierarchy

• Terministic screens

• Identification

When Bono tells a story about growing up in a divided religious home, and in a divided religious country, he is using story as he moves toward what rhetorical position?

(a)  

Which of these acts ranks highest, according to Bono, in terms of moral behavior with regard to Africa and giving one percent of the national budget?

• Grace

• Charity

• Love

• Justice

Bono says that, to be honest, the reason Africa is not a priority is because the world does not see them as (a)