Argumentation practice questions

Question: This term refers to a person imagined and/or implied by discourse:

Answer Options:
Specter
Persona
Universal audience
Particular audience

Answer: B (Persona)

Question: During the Enlightenment era, this was the most powerful form of artistic proof:

Answer Options:
Logos
Kairos
Ethos
Pathos

Answer: A (Logos)

Question: Which persona refers to the excluded, rejected, and/or negated audience implied by the discourse?

Answer Options:
First persona
Second persona
Fourth persona
Third persona

Answer: B (Second persona)

Question: Which persona refers to the qualities and characteristics of the rhetor implied by the discourse:

Answer Options:
Third persona
Second persona
First persona
Fourth persona

Answer: C (First persona)

Question: One of few Enlightenment era rhetoricians to maintain a humanist perspective:

Answer Options:
John Aristotle
Giambattista Vico
George Campbell
Chaim Perelman

Answer: B (Giambattista Vico)

Question: In Fisher’s narrative paradigm, whether the elements of a narrative seem coherent & internally consistent constitutes:

Answer Options:
a logic of rationality
a logic of good reasons
narrative probability
narrative fidelity

Answer: C (narrative probability)

Question: The intellectual effort to bring scientific standards to bear on the investigation and resolution of all issues:

Answer Options:
Logical positivism
Abstract realism
Elocution
Rational science

Answer: A (Logical positivism)

Question: According to Burke, these are terms that represent society’s most negative condemnations:

Answer Options:
Devil terms
Terministic screens
Ultimate terms
God terms

Answer: A (Devil terms)

Question: According to Fisher’s narrative paradigm, whether a story rings true given other stories that we know/believe to be true constitutes:

Answer Options:
a logic of rationality
narrative fidelity
a logic of good reasons
narrative probability

Answer: B (narrative fidelity)

Question: According to Bitzer, this is the term for a natural context of persons, events, objects, relations, and an exigence which strongly invites utterance:

Answer Options:
Third persona
Rhetorical constraints
Rhetorical situation
Second persona

Answer: C (Rhetorical situation)

Question: According to Fisher, this paradigm should be used to understand and guide public moral argument because it can account for human values and emotions and is accessible to most people:

Answer Options:
Platonic paradigm
Ideological paradigm
Narrative paradigm
Rational world paradigm

Answer: C (Narrative paradigm)

Question: This term refers to a network of interconnected beliefs, values, assumptions, and other convictions that shapes a person’s perspective and identity:

Answer Options:
Constitutive
Ideology
Communicative action
Framing

Answer: B (Ideology)

Question: According to Burke, this is an organizational structure that presents an argument that unfolds as a step-by-step logical proof:

Answer Options:
Qualitative progression
Narrative form
Repetitive form
Syllogistic form

Answer: D (Syllogistic form)

Question: This Enlightenment era perspective emphasized expressive, polished speech, good articulation, and good (English) pronunciation:

Answer Options:
Belletristic movement
Italian humanism
Elocutionary movement
Articulatory movement

Answer: C (Elocutionary movement)

Question: Early contemporary scholars such as Black and Wander critiqued traditional perspectives because these perspectives ignored:

Answer Options:
Ethos
Emotion
Audience
Ideology

Answer: D (Ideology)

Question: The Enlightenment era coincided with the rise of this intellectual and cultural movement, which is characterized by the questioning of human and divine authority and the perception that the universe is governed by natural, physical laws:

Answer Options:
Pragmatism
Humanism
Skepticism
Modernity

Answer: D (Modernity)

Question: In Toulmin’s model of argumentation, this term refers to the reasoning that links the evidence to the claim:

Answer Options:
Grounds
Rebuttal
Warrant
Qualifier

Answer: C (Warrant)

Question: During the mid-20th century, the emergence of “new rhetoric” was primarily driven by:

Answer Options:
A turn toward style and eloquence
The emergence of scientific rhetoric
A recognition that science could not provide solutions to persisting human/social problems
The popularity of logical positivism

Answer: C (A recognition that science could not provide solutions to persisting human/social problems)