Question: During the Enlightenment era, scholars turned toward pursuits of knowledge grounded in systematic observation and measurement. This type of knowledge is also called:
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Divine
Platonic
Practical
Empirical
Answer: D (Empirical)
Question: For Perelman & Olbrects-Tyteca, this term refers to an individual who helps a rhetor test their arguments:
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Universal audience
Individual audience
Audience of one
Particular audience
Answer: D (Particular audience)
Question: In perspectives on the relationship between rhetoric and context, this term refers to persons, events, objects, and relations that have the power to impact decision-making and action:
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Exigence
Constraints
Ideology
Rhetorical situation
Answer: B (Constraints)
Question: All of the following are characteristics of “new rhetoric” in the 20th century except:
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Investigations of the rhetorical dimensions of science
A focus on style and eloquence
The emergence of new perspectives on rhetorical audiences
A turn to the relationship between rhetoric and logic
Answer: B (A focus on style and eloquence)
Question: According to Burke, this term refers to words or phrases that work to portray issues, events, and/or people in particular ways:
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Devil terms
Terministic screens
God terms
Framing
Answer: B (Terministic screens)
Question: This Enlightenment era perspective emphasized the study and production of language thought to foster good taste:
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Belletristic movement
Italian humanism
Elocutionary movement
Evolutionary rhetoric
Answer: A (Belletristic movement)
Question: During the Enlightenment era, rhetoric’s primary function was:
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Logical argumentation
Promoting spiritual awakening
Personal refinement
Political decision-making
Answer: A (Logical argumentation)
Question: According to Burke, these are terms that are associated with society’s most positive ideals:
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Devil terms
Terministic screens
Ultimate terms
God terms
Answer: D (God terms)
Question: This theory assumes that the world is a set of stories from which we choose:
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Fisher’s narrative paradigm
Burke’s dramatism
Black’s second persona
Perleman & Olbrect-Tyteca’s universal audiece
Answer: A (Fisher’s narrative paradigm)
Question: Which scholar argued that rhetorical discourse emerges in response to a rhetorical situation?
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Kenneth Burke
Walter Fisher
Lloyd Bitzer
Richard Vatz
Answer: C (Lloyd Bitzer)
Question: According to Burke, all persuasion requires:
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Audience analysis
Ultimate terms
Identification
Logic
Answer: C (Identification)
Question: In Bitzer’s perspective on the relationship between rhetoric and context, this term refers to the issue or problem that most clearly specifies the audience to be addressed and the change to be effected:
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Controlling exigence
Primary constraint
Dominant term
Ultimate term
Answer: A (Controlling exigence)
Question: Which theorist defined rhetoric as “the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols”?
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Edwin Black
Walter Fisher
Lloyd Bitzer
Kenneth Burke
Answer: D (Kenneth Burke)
Question: In Toulmin’s model of argumentation, this term refers to the evidence used to support a claim:
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Qualifier
Warrant
Rebuttal
Grounds
Answer: D (Grounds)
Question: According to Burke, this organizational structure involves using one incident in a plot to prepare audiences for future incidents:
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Qualitative progression
Repetitive form
Narrative form
Syllogistic form
Answer: A (Qualitative progression)
Question: Explanatory narratives that claim to account for universal aspects of human knowledge and experience:
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metanarratives
cosmic narratives
master narratives
narrative fidelity
Answer: A (metanarratives)
Question: Derrida advanced the concept of différance, which illustrates the ways that meaning is constructed through processes of:
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deferral
defecation
deconstruction
differentiation
deontology
Answer: A, C, D (deferral, deconstruction, differentiation)
Question: The way that ideographs develop meaning based on their usage over time points to their:
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diachronic structure
ideological structure
synchronic structure
hegemonic structure
Answer: A (diachronic structure)