COMMRC 0310 Final Exam Questions and Answers

COMMRC 0310 Final Exam Questions and Answers What marks goal-directed discourse? - Answer-careful selection of symbols, construction of appeals and engagement of listeners and readers as feeling and valuing beings as well as thinking beings. Are the appeals of rhetoric adapted, universal, or neutral appeals? - Answer-Adapted What are Gregg's six basic patterns of human perception and what do they mean? - Answer-1. The principle of edging or formulating boundaries. The brain perceives data in terms of wholes. 2. Rhythm. The brain perceives data in terms of motion. 3. Association. The brain perceives identities. 4. Classification. The brain perceives groupings. 5. Abstraction. The brain perceives by abstracting data from the ecological flux of its total environment. 6. Hierarchy. The brain seeks closure on structures of perception. "All structures invite a particular expectation of patterned development and completion." Why is this important to rhetoric? - Answer-Because all our choices of argument, organization, language, action, occasion, setting, medium, and the like are actually choices of structure. What do we imply when we say that "rhetoric is an answer to the questions posed by the situation in which it arises"? - Answer-Rhetorical responses are not merely answers, but strategic answers and stylized answers. What are syllogistic progression, qualitative progression, repetitive form, conventional form, and minor or incidental form, as defined by Kenneth Burke, in the sense that forms work by guiding audience expectations and/or desires? - Answer-syllogistic progression - is the form of an argument that is perfectly conducted, with each premise leading to the next