Narrative Paradigm questions

Question: According to Burke, humans are _________ animals:

Answer Options:
delicious, superior, strange, symbol-using

Answer: symbol-using

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

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a logic of rationality, a logic of good reasons, narrative probability, narrative fidelity

Answer: narrative fidelity

Question: Which concept advanced by Kenneth Burke refers to the process of using rhetoric to identify what we have in common with other people?

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consubstantiality, terministic screen, ultimate terms, framing

Answer: consubstantiality

Question: According to Fisher, this paradigm is not well suited for enabling scholars to understand and guide public moral argument because it can’t fully account for human values and emotions and is not accessible to all people:

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Ideological paradigm, Narrative paradigm, Platonic paradigm, Rational world paradigm

Answer: Rational world paradigm

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

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Ethos, Emotion, Ideology, Audience

Answer: Ideology

Question: Which persona refers to the ideal, imagined audience implied by the discourse?

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Third persona, First persona, Fourth persona, Second persona

Answer: Second persona

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

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Second persona, Third persona, First persona, Fourth persona

Answer: Third persona

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

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Fourth persona, First persona, Second persona, Third persona

Answer: First persona

Question: Edwin Black’s The Second Persona is a critique of this person’s perspective on rhetoric & audiences:

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Cicero, Augustine, Plato, Aristotle

Answer: Aristotl

Question: Which of the following scholars embraced a constitutive perspective on rhetoric?

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Walter Fisher
Edwin Black
Richard Vatz
Kenneth Burke
Philip Wander
Lloyd Bitzer

Answer: A, B, D, E (Walter Fisher, Edwin Black, Kenneth Burke, Philip Wander)

Question: According to Burke, humans are _________ animals:

Answer Options:
superior
strange
delicious
symbol-using

Answer: D (symbol-using)

Question: According to Fisher, this paradigm is not well suited for enabling scholars to understand and guide public moral argument because it can’t fully account for human values and emotions and is not accessible to all people:

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

Answer: A (Rational world paradigm)

Question: During the mid-20th century, many scholars rejected the idea that our social reality exists independent of discourse. Instead, these scholars argued that rhetorical discourse actively participates in the ongoing construction of our social realities–this argument is characteristic of a _________ perspective on rhetoric:

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narrative
constitutive
positivist
critical

Answer: B (constitutive)

Question: In Burke’s pentad, this term refers to how an act was performed:

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Agency
Scene
Purpose
Agent

Answer: A (Agency)

Question: According to Fisher, the narrative paradigm assumes that the basic mode of human decision making is argument based on a logic of:

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values and emotions
cause and effect
rational thinking
good reasons

Answer: D (good reasons)

Question: Which scholar argued that rhetorical discourse constructs the situations it appears to address?

Answer Options:
Kenneth Burke
Walter Fisher
Lloyd Bitzer
Richard Vatz

Answer: D (Richard Vatz)

Question: This Enlightenment era scholar embraced the era’s emphasis on science, logic, and rationality by advancing a rhetorical theory that provided a systematic, organized, rational account of rhetoric:

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Giambattista Vico
George Campbell
Maria Edgeworth
Jurgen Habermas

Answer: B (George Campbell)

Question: For Perelman & Olbrects-Tyteca, this term refers to an imagined audience of highly rational individuals:

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Particular audience
Logical audience
Audience of one
Universal audience

Answer: D (Universal audience)

Question: According to contemporary perspectives on rhetoric and science, all of the following are true except:

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Scientific research utilizes logic and reasoning
Scientific discourse typically uses direct language and avoids stylistic devices
Scientists establish ethos for themselves and their research
Scientific research does not involve persuasion

Answer: D (Scientific research does not involve persuasion)

Question: This term means “an imperfection marked by urgency; a defect, an obstacle, something waiting to be done, a thing which is other than it should be”:

Answer Options:
Constraints
Ideology
Rhetorical situation
Exigence

Answer: D (Exigence)

Question: Edwin Black’s The Second Persona is a critique of this person’s perspective on rhetoric & audiences:

Answer Options:
Cicero
Aristotle
Plato
Augustine

Answer: B (Aristotle)

Question: Which persona refers to the ideal, imagined audience implied by the discourse?

Answer Options:
Second persona
Fourth persona
Third persona
First persona

Answer: C (Third persona)