COMMRC0310 Final Dr. Bannon Exam Marking Scheme

COMMRC0310 Final Dr. Bannon Exam Marking Scheme Define figure. Define trope - Answer -Figure: Creative arrangements of words in phrases or sentences that catch the audience's attention and focus it on your key ideas Trope: A substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase Why do the authors argue that "no language is neutral or unadorned"? - Answer -Everything that is said or written is dependent on multiple meanings, play, and artifice used to persuade people A full definition of rhetoric must acknowledge the ways that figures and tropes persuade. What are they? - Answer -Not simply by providing pretty or ornate language, but by bringing to bear associations that make words convincing - argumentatively, emotionally, and aesthetically How does Weaver define 'god-term'? - Answer -That expression about which all other expressions are ranked as subordinate and serving dominations and powers What is the surest indicator of a god-term? - Answer -The capacity to demand sacrifice When a term is so sacrosanct that the material goods of this life must be mysteriously rendered up for it, then we feel justified in saying that it is in some sense ultimate What is a hypostatized term? - Answer -One which treats as a substance or a concrete reality that which has only conceptual existence What does Weaver consider to be the most significant difference in the way critics can analyze devil-terms as opposed to god-terms? - Answer -Some obscure psychic law which compels every nation to have in its national imagination an enemy A version of the tribal need for a scapegoat, or for something which will personify "the adversary" What is the nature of a 'charismatic term'? - Answer -Have a power which is not derived, but which is in some mysterious way given Metaphor - Answer -a usually indirect comparison used to describe something with a word or phrase that is not meant literally, but that, by means of a vivid comparison, expresses something about it (Joe is a deer) and in which qualities of one are transferred by implication to the other Analogy - Answer -a (usually) direct comparison between two things that are similar in some way, often used to help explain something or make it easier to understand (Joe runs like a deer) - because one thing is like another, the truth of one shows the truth of the other. "The universe is like a pocket watch and a pocket watch has a designer, so the universe must also have a designer." Form - Answer -the raising and fulfilling of expectations in an audience, or simply the structure of a rhetorical act Crescendo - Answer -a gradual increase in intensity Climax - Answer -the conclusion of a sequence of phrases or sentences, each more forceful or intense than the last Enactment - Answer -an argument technique in which the speaker embodies the argument Hyperbole - Answer -deliberate and obvious exaggeration used for effect Alliteration - Answer -a poetic or literary effect achieved by using several words that begin with the same or similar consonants (Let us go forth to lead the land we love.)