Rhetoric Foundational Quiz Review

The person or organization that created the artifact

• Exigence

• Context

• Audience

• Speaker

Why the artifact was created in order to accomplish something (to persuade, educate, inform, incite, motivate, inspire...)

• Purpose

• Exigence

• Appeals

• Choices

When and where the artifact was created and delivered; this includes what was happening in the community, culture, or world

• Purpose

• Tone

• Context

• Audience

WHY the message matters, especially in the moment of creation; this is WHY the creator was moved to create the artifact

• Context

• Choices

• Exigence

• Appeals

Specific communication and decisions the creator makes or does not make in order to impact the message

• Appeals

• Choices

• Audience

• Tone

The elements of the artifact that persuade the audience through emotion, logic, or credibility

• Choices

• Appeals

• Exigence

• Tone

What can shift in certain parts of the message or point to the message or speaker's attitude?

• Tone

• Purpose

• Audience

• Context

The occasion is the specific event, attitude, or circumstance within the overall context (the influence of the historical, cultural, social time period)

• True

• False

What term best describes, "the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques?

• Exigence

• Rhetoric

• Argumentation

• Debate

The subject is the general topic of the text; this is not the same as purpose

• True

• False