SCOM 381 Canvas Quiz and Group Quiz Answers

Olson argues that, as an epideictic moment, the character with which kids are most likely to identify to help understand what is going on is:

Chip, the teacup

Olson, referencing the CDC report, notes that _________ occurs when one relationship partner seeks to isolate the other from her/his friends and family and/or keep track of their whereabouts.

Coercive control

Kuypers argues that the ______ stage(s) of doing rhetorical criticism is/are private and personal.

Conceptual

According to the Kuypers chapter (McGeough and King), the purpose of dramatism/the pentad is to:

Consider a speaker's motive based on which, of multiple possible perspectives, a person chooses to advance with her/his language

Browne argues that those rhetorical critics doing CTA see the relationship between rhetoric and aesthetics are such that:

Good rhetorical criticism can do both, examining how these two elements interact with one another

McMillan & Cheney argue that, under the consumer model, professors feel a/an __________ responsibility to serve as entertainers for students.

Greater

CANVAS QUIZZES: Kuypers argues that the personality of the researcher is considered to be a vital component of studies of which type(s)?

Humanistic

The Kuypers chapter suggests that, for Burke, the most important, ultimate reasons for using dramatism included all of the following EXCEPT:

Identifying the parts of the pentad and determining pentadic ratios for a particular text

Benoit indicates that generic description works through a/an _____ process and generic application works through a/an ____ process.

Inductive, Deductive

According to Medhurst, Burke's cluster approach was originally developed to analyze ______.

Literature

According to Medhurst, the ambuguities of interpretation of the Exorcist serve to ___________ the audience.

Maximize participation of

_______ identifies rhetorical criticism as a mode of investigation, not a method of analysis.

Medhurst

Jamieson suggests that which of the following are similar enough to belong in the same rhetorical genre?

Nixon's Checkers Speech and Socrates' Apology

Based on the Proofs handout, if a proof already exists and the speaker does not have to create/construct, we call it a/an ________ proof.

Nonartistic

Ed Black, in his chapter in Kuypers, says that good rhetorical criticism should be all of the following EXCEPT:

Objective

Enos ("Introduction") argues that rhetorical criticism is:

Over 100 years old

According to our class discussion, frameworks like the proofs and the 5 canons can be used both in creating rhetorical discourse (such as someone preparing to give a public speech) and also as tools for analyzing and evaluating the rhetorical choices and strategies made by other rhetors.

True

According to the Kuypers chapter, Burke's idea of terministic screens suggests that any choice of vocabulary will illuminate some aspects while leading us away from others.

True

According to the Rhetorical Heritage handout, the definition of rhetoric as being concerned with the available means of persuasion in a given case was crafted by Aristotle.

True

Black argues that Neo-Aristotelian is heavily driven by a focus on the linkages between rhetoric and logic and thus tends not to study types of persuasive appeals that aren't in the form of logical arguments/propositions.

True

Henry and Burkholder argue that, just because there are metaphors present in a speech, that does not necessarily mean that metaphoric criticism is the most productive approach to understanding the speech.

True

Hill's article argues that Nixon chose those Americans not ideologically opposed to or supportive of the war as his primary target audience.

True

In Ed Black's chapter in Kuypers, he argues that it is possible for a critic to be excessively objective.

True

Jamieson indicates that genre creates expectations both for a speaker and for the audience, including the critic.

True

Kuypers Chapter 2 argues that rhetoric is currently seeing a resurgence in interest in American higher education as well as in Europe.

True

Kuypers indicates that a rhetorical critic is also a rhetor (that is, she/he is producing rhetoric by producing criticism).

True

Kuypers labels those specific acts of rhetoric that are analyzed by rhetorical critics as rhetorical artifacts.

True

Lucas argues that the word "facts" in the Declaration was meant to indicate that these facts are unmediated representations of empirical reality, rather than interpretations of reality.

True

Medhurst argues that critics with different/competing evaluations of the Exorcist cite the same evidence in making their arguments.

True

Medhurst argues that he is more focused on contributing to a general understanding of public affairs than in contributing to a general understanding of rhetoric.

True

Olson argues that Disney's version of the film encourages to be more sympathetic and excusing of Beast's violence and more clearly against Gaston's violence.

True

Olson argues that the fact that this is a Disney film makes it uniquely important to examine, as Disney is trusted by parents and trusted to serve as family-friendly entertainment.

True

Olson claims that texts like Disney's Beauty and the Beast ultimately serve as a barrier to achieving social progress.

True

Olson warns that the broader theme of looking past original appearances and impressions to find the real person inside (as with the Beast) may end up suggesting to the viewers that they should try to look beyond and/or distrust what would otherwise be warning signs of romantic violence.

True

One opposition put forth by the Church's response to Morton, according to Strauss, is to identify Morton as oppressor and the Church as the oppressed.

True

The Kuypers chapter suggests that for Burke, motive means, in part, the worldview that the speaker/rhetor wants us to adopt.

True

The quotation by Ed Black on the first page of the syllabus suggests that good criticism is nuanced and complex.

True

Wichelns argues that his main goal is to understand how critics have spoken of orators.

True

Wichelns suggests that it is possible for rhetorical criticism to serve as a preliminary step that can then set up literary criticism.

True

Zarefsky points out that many early rhetorical criticism essays were criticized for being too "cookie-cutter" in the way that they practiced Neo-Aristotelianism.

True

Strauss characterizes the Church's response as all of the following EXCEPT:

Understated

Lucas references John Lind who argued that, for the British to fully respond to the Declaration's accusations, they would have needed ____________ pages to answer its charges.

100 or more

McMillan and Cheney argue that the "student as consumer" metaphor initially became popular in the _______.

1980s

In performing her rhetorical analysis, Olson examines:

All of the Above

Rhetorical criticism, according to Wichelns, can include a focus on:

All of the Above

According to McMillan and Cheney, the student as consumer metaphor originally came about due to a concern for:

All of the above

According to our class discussion, which of the following are now seen by many as being rhetorical in some sense?

All of the above

Browne argues that CTA allows a critic to judge/evaluate a text in terms of its:

All of the above

Browne argues that close textual analysis (what he terms CTA) can be used to analyze:

All of the above

Medhurst analyzes the use of the _______ imagery in his analysis of the Exorcist.

All of the above

King argues that, prior to the publication of Edwin Black's book in 1965, the primary thinker on whom most rhetorical criticism was based was:

Aristotle

A speaker's organization of her/hisspeech represents which canon of rhetoric, according to the Rhetorical Heritage handout?

Arrangement

Zarefsky argues that his critical approach/attitude toward doing rhetorical criticism involves asking:

Both what's going on here and what about it?

King claims that the future of rhetorical criticism looks:

Bright

START OF GROUP QUIZZES: As per today's discussion, even though Plato and the Sophists disagree on what constitutes Truth and the Good, they would all use very similar criteria to judge/evaluate a speech.

False

Strauss indicates that the responses to his critiques of Cruise and the Church of Scientology were published as an official press release by the Church.

False

True or False: Olson argues that Disney's version of the Beauty and the Beast story is basically the same as previous versions.

False

Zarefsky argues that Wichelns intended for us to study immediate, tangible, material effects of a speech.

False

Which kind of rhetoric is focused on the past, and concerned with the audience making a formal judgmentof innocence or guilt, according to the Rhetorical Heritage handout?

Forensic/Judicial

Benoit identifies a/an ________ as occurring when an artifact combines two genres.

Generic hybrid

Black says that a Neo-Aristotelian critic would judge the "Coatesville Address" to be:

A clear failure

Black argues that Chapman's audience for his speech consisted of:

A very small number of individuals (under 10)

Olson argues that while the bystander characters offer problematic responses, the actions of the main characters, especially the Beast, are more problematic and distressing.

False

Olson suggests that one key underlying rhetorical theme of the movie is that, whether they are male characters we identify as good or bad, if they have a violent nature no woman, no matter how "good," can fix/improve their ways.

False

According to Young and Farrell, in order for a speaker to gain the public's consent and assent to act in a particular way, she/he must develop the public's knowledge in order to do all of the following EXCEPT:

Develop the public's trust in the speaker

Kuypers calls the kind of criticism that combines multiple perspectives to develop a personalized framework __________ criticism.

Eclectic

According to Hill's article, a Neo-Aristotelian criticism includes all of the following steps EXCEPT:

Evaluating the truth of the speaker's statements

Of these various types of rhetorical criticism, Brockriede argues that _____ is the best.

Explanation

According to Brigham & Noland, when Burke conceptualized the pentad and the related pentadic "ratios," he saw those ratios as usually consisting specifically of 3 of the 5 pentadic terms.

False

According to Kuypers, all critics agree that rhetorical criticism should be objective and detached.

False

According to Young and Farrell, Bitzer defines an exigence as something that influences what can be said and what should not be said.

False

According to class discussion, a speech cannot contain components of more than 1 of Aristotle's venues/genres.

False

Benoit claims that generic criticism suggests to the critic both which rhetorical artifacts/texts they should examine and how they should analyze those artifacts/texts.

False

Brigham and Noland agree with critics who have charged Kony 2012 as being mere slacktivism.

False

Brockriede argues that all rhetorical criticism has as a primary goal the evaluation of the rhetoric it examines.

False

Browne argues that someone doing CTA is first and foremost interested in the question of what a text means.

False

Enos agrees with those scholars who claim that classical rhetorical texts should only be examined with classical rhetorical theories.

False

Enos argues that better understanding the nature of discourse is the most significant achievement in the history of rhetorical criticism.

False

Following the framework put forth by Henry and Burkholder, if you were to describe your statistics course as a "fight to the death," the vehicle in that statement would be your statistics course.

False

For Brockriede, the argument "test" he is describing is a binary- either a piece of rhetorical criticism is an argument, or it is not, but there is no in-between.

False

For Henry and Burkholder, a rhetor using a metaphor is likely to be equally successful in using the metaphor toward others in her/his same speech community, as she/he would be in using it toward audiences who are not part of her/his same speech community.

False

Hill's article argues that this speech by Nixon could best be understood as fitting into the Aristotelian category of judicial/forensic rhetoric.

False

In terms of making simple and/or complex appeals in humanitarian advocacy, Brigham and Noland argue that they should be sequenced, starting with complexity and then becoming simple.

False

Jamieson suggests that the purpose for doing genre/generic criticism is to classify rhetorical texts into categories.

False

Kuypers indicates that analysis refers to determining the meaning of a rhetorical artifact.

False

Kuypers notes that cluster analysis was first developed by Aristotle.

False

McMillan & Cheney argue that there are no viable alternatives to the consumer metaphor/model.

False

Medhurst argues that, based on the equations he has analyzed, the basic thesis of the movie is the triumph of good over evil

False

McMillan and Cheney claim that the consumer metaphor encourages predominantly a ______ orientation toward learning.

Product

"When a school is lacking in the basic resources needed for students to learn, students will not be academically successful." Of the ratios described in the Kuypers chapter, this would be an example of:

Scene-Act

Brigham and Noland argue that the Save Darfur campaign places emphasis on the _______ ratio.

Scene-Act

Strauss indicates that little scholarship has been produced on Scientology because:

Secretive and tough to be researched as well as the Church retaliating against those who critique it

Black argues that neo-Aristotelian criticism tends to focus on most/all of the following types of concepts EXCEPT:

Social Movements

Which of the following audiences most directly count as rhetorical audiences from the perspective of Bitzer, according to Young and Farrell?

Speaking to a city council about changing that city's noise ordinance

Brigham and Noland claim that Kony 2012 should be thought of as ______ rather than _____.

Synecdoche, Metonymy

Today, we talked significantly about the role of contingency in rhetoric, which for us may mean all of the following EXCEPT:

The idea that you should have a back up plan in case your initial rhetorical approach is unsuccessful

Henry and Burkholder argue that the biggest risk in using metaphors is that:

They become taken as literal and people forget that they are metaphors, instead treating them as real

According to Benoit, one way in which rhetorical critics might group speeches as belonging to a genre is based on a shared medium (blogs, songs, plays, etc.).

True

According to Henry and Burkholder, the question of whether something is simile or metaphor, and whether "like" is being used to signify the relationship, is not of primary importance for us as rhetorical critics.

True

According to Lucas, the preamble was comprised of principles that were self-evident to eighteenth-century readers.

True