COMM 111 Final Exam questions with
complete solutions 2025/2026
Persuasion - ANS ✔✔Creating, reinforcing, changing people's beliefs or actions
Degrees of Persuasion - ANS ✔✔Persuasion involves any movement by a listener from left to
right
Artistic Proofs - ANS ✔✔Logos (logical proof)
Ethos (personal proof)
Pathos (emotional proof)
Logos: Types of Evidence - ANS ✔✔Facts, Examples (True, Hypothetical), Statistics, Testimony
(Expert, Peer)
Logos - ANS ✔✔the user of evidence and reasoning in a speech
Components of Ethos - ANS ✔✔Good Character - trustworthiness
Common Sense - competence
Goodwill - friendliness
Dynamism - charisma
Types of Ethos - ANS ✔✔Prior (reputation), demonstrated (well prepared, good delivery)
Ethos - ANS ✔✔credibility; set of attitudes audience has toward speaker
, Pathos - ANS ✔✔persuasion is affected through the audience when they are brought into a
state of emotion
Dimensions of Emotional Response - ANS ✔✔Pleasure/displeasure
Arousal/non-arousal
Dominance/powerlessness
Devices of Pathos - ANS ✔✔Use of language, non-verbal behavior, visual images, appeals to
needs and values (Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ANS ✔✔Physiological - requirements for survival
Safety - desire for security, stability, order
Social - sense of belonging, love and be loved
Self-Esteem - being valued by others
Self-Actualization - fulfillment in life
Persuasive Speech Organizational Patterns - ANS ✔✔Problem/Solution, Refutation, Monroe's
Motivated Sequence
Monroe's Motivated Squence - ANS ✔✔Gain attention, establish need, satisfaction,
visualization, call to action
Question of Fact - ANS ✔✔A question about the truth or falsity of an assertion
Question of Value - ANS ✔✔A valued judgment is justified using factual info and appeals to
needs and values
complete solutions 2025/2026
Persuasion - ANS ✔✔Creating, reinforcing, changing people's beliefs or actions
Degrees of Persuasion - ANS ✔✔Persuasion involves any movement by a listener from left to
right
Artistic Proofs - ANS ✔✔Logos (logical proof)
Ethos (personal proof)
Pathos (emotional proof)
Logos: Types of Evidence - ANS ✔✔Facts, Examples (True, Hypothetical), Statistics, Testimony
(Expert, Peer)
Logos - ANS ✔✔the user of evidence and reasoning in a speech
Components of Ethos - ANS ✔✔Good Character - trustworthiness
Common Sense - competence
Goodwill - friendliness
Dynamism - charisma
Types of Ethos - ANS ✔✔Prior (reputation), demonstrated (well prepared, good delivery)
Ethos - ANS ✔✔credibility; set of attitudes audience has toward speaker
, Pathos - ANS ✔✔persuasion is affected through the audience when they are brought into a
state of emotion
Dimensions of Emotional Response - ANS ✔✔Pleasure/displeasure
Arousal/non-arousal
Dominance/powerlessness
Devices of Pathos - ANS ✔✔Use of language, non-verbal behavior, visual images, appeals to
needs and values (Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ANS ✔✔Physiological - requirements for survival
Safety - desire for security, stability, order
Social - sense of belonging, love and be loved
Self-Esteem - being valued by others
Self-Actualization - fulfillment in life
Persuasive Speech Organizational Patterns - ANS ✔✔Problem/Solution, Refutation, Monroe's
Motivated Sequence
Monroe's Motivated Squence - ANS ✔✔Gain attention, establish need, satisfaction,
visualization, call to action
Question of Fact - ANS ✔✔A question about the truth or falsity of an assertion
Question of Value - ANS ✔✔A valued judgment is justified using factual info and appeals to
needs and values
