Understanding the Rhetorical Situation

What is the role of the writer in a rhetorical situation?

• The writer is the audience of a text.

• The writer is the creator of a text and presents a perspective shaped by their background or context.

• The writer is the message of a text.

• The writer is the purpose of a text.

What does the message in a rhetorical situation refer to?

• The audience's beliefs and values.

• The writer's claim developed with reasoning and evidence.

• The context in which the text is created.

• The purpose of the text.

What is the purpose in a rhetorical situation?

• The time, place, and occasion of the text.

• The writer's claim.

• What the writer hopes to accomplish within a text (change mood, mind or action).

• The audience's needs and backgrounds.

What is exigence in a rhetorical situation?

• The audience's shared beliefs and values.

• The part of a rhetorical situation that inspires, stimulates, or provokes writers to create a text.

• The writer's claim developed with reasoning and evidence.

• The position the author takes in an argument.

What does context refer to in a rhetorical situation?

• The writer's claim.

• The audience's needs and backgrounds.

• The time, place, and occasion in which the text is created.

• The purpose of the text.

Who is the audience in a rhetorical situation?

• The writer of the text.

• The message of the text.

• The people with shared and individual beliefs, values, needs, and backgrounds.

• The purpose of the text.

What is a claim in a rhetorical situation?

• The main idea, opinion, or belief that the author of an argument wants the audience to accept or believe.

• The time, place, and public conversation going on at the time of creating the text.

• The part of a rhetorical situation that inspires writers to create a text.

• The audience's shared beliefs and values.

What is Forensic Rhetoric?

• Rhetoric that focuses on values and is in the future tense.

• Rhetoric that focuses on blame and is in the present tense.

• Rhetoric that focuses on blame and is in the past tense.

• Rhetoric that focuses on choice and is in the future tense.

What is Deliberative Rhetoric?

• Rhetoric that focuses on blame and is in the past tense.

• Rhetoric that focuses on choice and is in the future tense.

• Rhetoric that focuses on values and is in the present tense.

• Rhetoric that focuses on choice and is in the past tense.

What is Demonstrative Rhetoric?

• Rhetoric that focuses on choice and is in the future tense.

• Rhetoric that focuses on values and is in the present tense.

• Rhetoric that focuses on choice and is in the present tense.

• Rhetoric that focuses on blame and is in the past tense.