Exam 2: Rhetorical Scholars: Perspectives on Rhetoric

Pete Rose's confession that he gambled on his team in baseball is a form of mortification, which is found in which theory of communication?

The Tower of Babel is the story of the people of Noah who were divided by foreign languages and thus became divided into tribes.

Explain Walter Fisher's narrative theory and give an example of a public figure who used this form of proof to persuade an audience.

Plato, the Greek philosopher, in his writings offered which of the following views on knowledge?

Kenneth Burke wrote, "Here is the simplest case of persuasion. You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his."

Jacques Ellul, a sociologist, described persuasion as a result of La Technique, which originated from:

The O. J. Simpson murder trial is an example of what form of communication?

Kenneth Burke characterized man by which of the following characteristics?

Discuss the Tower of Babel myth and, using Kenneth Burke's writing, explain the relevance of it to persuasion. Include in your answer the concept of identification.

Aristotle wrote The Rhetoric, which is the foundational book for theories of persuasion.