WorksheetsRhetorical Situation
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
True or False: The culture, time period, history, and surrounding events do not influence the rhetorical situation.
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE or FALSE: The speaker is the persona created by the author in order to better persuade the audience.
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE or FALSE: A speaker/writer's PURPOSE is the end game, the goal, the thing that he/she wants to accomplish with words.
TRUE
FALSE
TRUE or FALSE: Exigence is different from purpose because it is more about what is compelling the author/speaker to say something, and less about what he/she wants to accomplish.
TRUE
FALSE
In considering the audience, one must examine
The audience's assumptions or beliefs
The audience's values
The culture that a specific target group in the audience may be immersed in
All of the above
In "Homeless' by Anna Quindlen, which of the following is NOT part of the speaker's persona?
Quindlen has an "Irish grandfather."
Quindlen has an "overactive sense of place."
Quindlen does not have a strong love of home.
Quindlen is a journalist "doing a story on homeless people."
Which of the choices below is NOT one of the details in the CONTEXT of "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen?
"[Homelessness] is a difficult problem, and some wise and compassionate people are working hard on it."
The city of Chicago had recently seen a rise in homeless people.
People in the city don't understand "that those without homes would rather sleep [sic] huddled in doorways than go to shelters."
Which of the following does NOT explain Quindlen's exigence-- or compelling force to speak out?
"...children who do not understand what it means to go to their rooms because they have never had a room..."
"Painted blue."
"It has been customary to take people's pain and lesson our won participation in it by turning it into an issue, not a collection of human beings."
"I was doing a story on homeless people."
Quindlen's purpose is most likely to...
Inform the audience of the realities of homelessness by giving statistics and examples.
Persuade the audience to shift their perceptions and assumptions about people who have no homes.
Convince the audience to start dealing with the issue of homelessness by following a city revitalization plan.
Narrate the story of a person who is homeless in the hope that her story will make homelessness more relatable.
Quindlen's target audience is likely...
People who distance themselves from homeless individuals by thinking of homelessness as an issue, not a group of people.
People who are more economically stable and don't understand why homeless people don't just "go to shelters."
People who understand the value of what a home is, who love their home and those "dumb things about it."
All of the above.
