Exam 15: Rhetorical Criticism: How to Interpret Persuasive Texts and Artifacts

Discuss how the assumptions of a critic who analyzes a presidential candidate's campaign speech from a neoclassical approach would differ from a critic who analyzes the speech from an ideographic approach.

For a narrative to be judged an effective and satisfactory text, it must demonstrate:

When a researcher deductively describes how the characteristics of a genre should be applied to a specific rhetorical text to assess whether it is a good or poor fit, the researcher is using:

Discuss how your favorite television show or movie could be analyzed by doing a cluster analysis or pentadic criticism.

Finding common ground is the essence of Burke's concept of

As you listen to a podcast of a recent speech by the mayor, you notice that the mayor frequently describes the city's "fight" against drug abuse and its "war" on opioid distribution. You will likely analyze the speech from this rhetorical approach:

This approach to criticism attempts to accurately explain how the speaker used various persuasive devices and evaluate how effective the argument appeared to be based rationally on principles of effective argument:

According to Burke, the setting or situation in which the rhetorical act occurs is called the

This approach to rhetorical criticism assumes that life is a continual process of recreating our own stories:

Ethos, an artistic proof, is defined as:

Compare and contrast the claims, data, and warrants of neoclassical criticism and metaphoric criticism.

Which of the following is an example of an inartistic proof?

A central ethical concern of rhetorical criticism has been:

Which of the following canons best describes style?

Which of the following methodologies has "identification" and "purification" as central concepts?

Rhetorical theory differs from rhetorical criticism in that:

Exigence, audience, and constraints compose the components of:

The characteristics of rhetorical criticism include:

Words that operate as vectors of influence are called:

Which of the following warrants would be used to evaluate metaphoric criticism?