Public Speaking Foundations Review

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

• Purpose

• Rhetoric

• Context

• Evidence

The author or speaker's attitude towards a subject is called...

• onomatopoeia

• tone

• audience

• context

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

• argument

• debate

This appeal uses credibility, authority, and reliability to persuade the audience

This appeal uses emotion, imagination, sympathy to persuade the audience

This appeal uses logic, reason, and rationality to persuade the audience

Which of the following does not relate to ETHOS?

• expertise and knowledge

• experience

• sincerity

• facts / statistics

Which of the following does not relate to LOGOS?

• specific details and examples

• imagination

• facts / statistics

• expert testimony

Which of the following does not relate to PATHOS?

• emotions and sympathy

• desires and hopes

• rationality and reasoning

• fears and prejudices

Which great thinker was the philosopher who introduced the rhetorical appeals?

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Sophocles

• Plato