WorksheetsCOMS 232 Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who said that rhetoric is “the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion.”
Aristotle
Plato
Cicero
Gorgias
In 2011, President Obama delivered a speech after the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden. Who was Obama in this situation?
Sign
Artifact
Rhetor
Exigence
A speaker tells a moving story about their friend whose life was saved thanks to a blood donation. What appeal is this?
Kairos
Pathos
Ethos
Logos
Environmentalists and climate change deniers disagree on whether or not climate change exists. Which stasis is this?
Fact
Definition
Quality
Policy
An abstract word with high emotional resonance and that signifies an ideological commitment is known as a(n)...
Denotation
Metaphor
Ideology
Ideograph
Patriotism, feminism, environmentalism, and Christianity are all examples of...
Ideographs
Symbols
Ideologies
Rhetoric
In antiquity, who taught public speaking to Greek citizens, providing a tool for upward mobility?
Sophists
Trojans
Aristotelians
Ciceronians
What's the claim type? - "Though attendance at women's sports events is on the rise, it still lags behind men's sports."
Fact
Value
Policy
Analogy
What is this enthymeme's missing warrant: "You're graduating in Dec. so you have to take your picture by the campanile!"
You'll want to remember the moment
It's important to take pictures in your cap and gown
All KU graduates take their pic by the campanile
The campanile is a KU icon
To make messages stick, to foster emotional engagement, and to form identification are all functions of what?
Signs
Narratives
Public memory
Ideologies
What type of monument is the Jayhawk in front of Strong Hall?
Figural
Abstract
Vernacular
Counter-memory
You want to analyze former Chancellor Gray-Little's dedicatory speech for a new campus building. What's the artifact?
The building
The speech
Chancellor Gray-Little
The audience
After the tragic death of Kobe Bryant, some argued the NBA should retire #8 & #24. What type of rhetoric is this?
Forensic
Epideictic
Stasis
Deliberative
Identification is a system of ideas or a pattern of beliefs. (e.g. fascism, nationalism, etc.)
True
False
Stasis theory helps us to identify what?
Points of agreement/disagreement
Components of the rhetorical situation
Types of rhetorical agency
Rhetorical fallacies
In a rhetorical situation, who is the second persona?
The rhetor themselves
The audience the rhetor addresses
The excluded, but necessary, audience
The audience that listens in and is empowered by the message
What fallacy is this: “CNN is a credible news source because it has more than 20 million loyal viewers.”
False dilemma
Ad populum
Slippery slope
Ad hominem
"Strawperson" fallacy occurs when a person makes a claim based on insufficient evidence.
True
False
Spaces are rhetorical when they:
Are memorable
Are familiar
Shape beliefs & direct behavior
Use vibrant colors
______ is a rhetorical process of of constructing the past in light of the present.
History
Identifying
Terministic screening
Public memory
