COMS 232 Review

Who said that rhetoric is “the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion.”

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Cicero

• Gorgias

In 2011, President Obama delivered a speech after the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden. Who was Obama in this situation?

• Sign

• Artifact

• Rhetor

• Exigence

A speaker tells a moving story about their friend whose life was saved thanks to a blood donation. What appeal is this?

• Kairos

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Logos

Environmentalists and climate change deniers disagree on whether or not climate change exists. Which stasis is this?

• Fact

• Definition

• Quality

• Policy

An abstract word with high emotional resonance and that signifies an ideological commitment is known as a(n)...

• Denotation

• Metaphor

• Ideology

• Ideograph

Patriotism, feminism, environmentalism, and Christianity are all examples of...

• Ideographs

• Symbols

• Ideologies

• Rhetoric

In antiquity, who taught public speaking to Greek citizens, providing a tool for upward mobility?

• Sophists

• Trojans

• Aristotelians

• Ciceronians

What's the claim type? - "Though attendance at women's sports events is on the rise, it still lags behind men's sports."

• Fact

• Value

• Policy

• Analogy

What is this enthymeme's missing warrant: "You're graduating in Dec. so you have to take your picture by the campanile!"

• You'll want to remember the moment

• It's important to take pictures in your cap and gown

• All KU graduates take their pic by the campanile

• The campanile is a KU icon

To make messages stick, to foster emotional engagement, and to form identification are all functions of what?

• Signs

• Narratives

• Public memory

• Ideologies