Exam 2 Review

The ____ ____ involves message elaboration

• central route

• peripheral route

• central messages

• persuasion route

The _____ _____ is a process that accepts of rejects a message based on irrelevant cues

• outer route

• central route

• peripheral route

• persuasion route

____ _____ is a distressing mental state cause by inconsistencies between a person's two beliefs

• Symbolic interactionism

• Cognitive dissonance

• Narrative dissonance

• Narrative paradigm

A major critique of cognitive dissonance is ___

• the theory is testable

• the theory is simple

• the theory does not have a lot of moving parts

• the theory is not simple

Who is the theorist of rhetoric?

• Zeus

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle

Which is NOT a classification of rhetoric?

• Epideictic

• Persuasion

• Deliberative

• Forensics

What is feature 1 of Kenneth Burke's Dramatism?

• Language is the genesis of guilt

• The guilt redemption cycle describes getting rid of guilt through purification

• Identification is the common ground between speaker and audience

• The dramatistic pentad is a tool

What is a major critique of dramatism?

• Burke's ideas are too weak

• Burke's ideas are too funny

• Burke's ideas are too controversial

• Burke's ideas aren't controversial enough

A ____ is a conceptual framework

• rationality

• narrative

• theory

• paradigm

Fisher is overly ___ about the audience

• pessimistic

• optimisitc

• confident

• concerned