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True/False: Logos is a more important persuasive appeal than pathos.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Aristotle was a student of __________________.

Plato

Socrates

Protagoras

Homer

Answer

Correct Answer: Plato

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True/False: Plato was a Sophist.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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True/False: Sophists believed there was one ultimate Truth.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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The _________________ are considered to be our first public speaking teachers.

Orators

Sophists

Spectators

Platotians

Answer

Correct Answer: Sophists

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According to Warren and Fassett, Ancient Greece was primarily a(n) _____________ culture.

Kinesthetic

Visual

Oral

Auditory

Answer

Correct Answer: Oral

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According to the text, “Once you select a topic, your process shifts from topic generation to forming that topic into a(n) __________ or overarching claim.”

Speech

Attention-getter

Statement of significance

Thesis

Answer

Correct Answer: Thesis

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According to the text, you should take _____________ into consideration when selecting a topi

The assignment

The audience

What you believe in and what messages you desire to share

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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According to the text, the S M R and S M R model of the communication process, does not include…

Context

Feedback

Listener responsibility

Both A and B

Answer

Correct Answer: Both A and B

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Anthony gave a speech on the disappearance of low-income housing. During his introduction, he explained to the audience that his family qualifies for funding through Section 8 (a federal government program that assists low-income families to afford housing), but they have been on the waiting list for over 4 years. Anthony uses his personal experience as an effort to appeal to…

Logos

Pathos

Ethos

Both B and C

Answer

Correct Answer: Both B and C

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In Cicero’s Canons of Rhetoric, this component is a message’s genre or mode is called ____________.

Rhetoric

Style

Social Constructionism

Social Science

Answer

Correct Answer: Style

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Social Science informed by scientific methods, this trend in communication research that values micro-analytic studies of communication.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Social Constructionism views communication as a process, as a messy enterprise that we all engage in, searching for meaning in ourselves and in each other as we make our way through the world.

Rhetoric

Style

Social Constructionism

Social Science

Answer

Correct Answer: Social Constructionism

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Uncovering, in any given situation, the available means of persuasion”

Rhetoric

Style

Social Constructionism

Social Science

Answer

Correct Answer: Rhetoric

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Pathos is the rhetorical appeal that relies on appeals to a listener’s emotions.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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In Cicero’s Canons of Rhetoric, Memory means this component is a ___________ to be remembered.

Message’s content

Intersubjective

Elocution

Message’s ability

Answer

Correct Answer: Message’s ability

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Logos means rhetorical appeal that relies on appeals to a listener’s logical reasoning.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Invention means in Cicero’s Canons of Rhetoric, this component is a_____________ .

Message’s content

Intersubjective

Elocution

Ethos

Answer

Correct Answer: Message’s content

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The way we, as Subjects (or agents, or sentient people capable of insight), create meanings together (“inter” suggests “between”) in interaction is called ___________.

Intersubjective

History of Communication

Invention

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Intersubjective

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An attempt to capture what happened in the world of communication that brought us to the present moment is known as:

Intersubjective

History of Communication

Invention

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: History of Communication

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Ethos is the rhetorical appeal that relies on appeals to a listener’s sense of speaker credibility.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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__________ is a period in the history of the field when rhetoric became a field that only focused on delivery and style, producing schools that taught students to speak with poise and eloquence.

Intersubjective

Elocution

Ethos

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Elocution

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Delivery is in Cicero’s Canons of Rhetoric, this component is a message’s presentation.

Elocution

Arrangement

Delivery

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Delivery

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Critical/Cultural Turn in Communication is an effort in communication research that involves incorporating culture and working for social justice.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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In Cicero’s Canons of Rhetoric, this component is a message’s organization.

Elocution

Arrangement

Delivery

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Arrangement

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