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COMS 232 Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who said that rhetoric is “the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion.”

a)

Aristotle

b)

Plato

c)

Cicero

d)

Gorgias

2.

In 2011, President Obama delivered a speech after the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden. Who was Obama in this situation?

a)

Sign

b)

Artifact

c)

Rhetor

d)

Exigence

3.

A speaker tells a moving story about their friend whose life was saved thanks to a blood donation. What appeal is this?

a)

Kairos

b)

Pathos

c)

Ethos

d)

Logos

4.

Environmentalists and climate change deniers disagree on whether or not climate change exists. Which stasis is this?

a)

Fact

b)

Definition

c)

Quality

d)

Policy

5.

An abstract word with high emotional resonance and that signifies an ideological commitment is known as a(n)...

a)

Denotation

b)

Metaphor

c)

Ideology

d)

Ideograph

6.

Patriotism, feminism, environmentalism, and Christianity are all examples of...

a)

Ideographs

b)

Symbols

c)

Ideologies

d)

Rhetoric

7.

In antiquity, who taught public speaking to Greek citizens, providing a tool for upward mobility?

a)

Sophists

b)

Trojans

c)

Aristotelians

d)

Ciceronians

8.

What's the claim type? - "Though attendance at women's sports events is on the rise, it still lags behind men's sports."

a)

Fact

b)

Value

c)

Policy

d)

Analogy

9.

What is this enthymeme's missing warrant: "You're graduating in Dec. so you have to take your picture by the campanile!"

a)

You'll want to remember the moment

b)

It's important to take pictures in your cap and gown

c)

All KU graduates take their pic by the campanile

d)

The campanile is a KU icon

10.

To make messages stick, to foster emotional engagement, and to form identification are all functions of what?

a)

Signs

b)

Narratives

c)

Public memory

d)

Ideologies

11.

What type of monument is the Jayhawk in front of Strong Hall?

a)

Figural

b)

Abstract

c)

Vernacular

d)

Counter-memory

12.

You want to analyze former Chancellor Gray-Little's dedicatory speech for a new campus building. What's the artifact?

a)

The building

b)

The speech

c)

Chancellor Gray-Little

d)

The audience

13.

After the tragic death of Kobe Bryant, some argued the NBA should retire #8 & #24. What type of rhetoric is this?

a)

Forensic

b)

Epideictic

c)

Stasis

d)

Deliberative

14.

Identification is a system of ideas or a pattern of beliefs. (e.g. fascism, nationalism, etc.)

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Stasis theory helps us to identify what?

a)

Points of agreement/disagreement

b)

Components of the rhetorical situation

c)

Types of rhetorical agency

d)

Rhetorical fallacies

16.

In a rhetorical situation, who is the second persona?

a)

The rhetor themselves

b)

The audience the rhetor addresses

c)

The excluded, but necessary, audience

d)

The audience that listens in and is empowered by the message

17.

What fallacy is this: “CNN is a credible news source because it has more than 20 million loyal viewers.”

a)

False dilemma

b)

Ad populum

c)

Slippery slope

d)

Ad hominem

18.

"Strawperson" fallacy occurs when a person makes a claim based on insufficient evidence.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Spaces are rhetorical when they:

a)

Are memorable

b)

Are familiar

c)

Shape beliefs & direct behavior

d)

Use vibrant colors

20.

______ is a rhetorical process of of constructing the past in light of the present.

a)

History

b)

Identifying

c)

Terministic screening

d)

Public memory