Question 1

What are the reasons Douglas Eyman sets out for articulating "a specific formulation for digital rhetoric"?

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Douglas Eyman believes that scholars need to specifically formulate a digital rhetoric for our modern world. Eyman believes this for several reasons. First, because it would allow for rhetoricians to ally themselves with other fields that do not typically investigate words and texts. Second, it would bringin new theories and methods for rhetoric to help better understand the digital world. Third, because it would start setting the boundaries of a new field of study. Eyman believes that rhetoric has a lot to say about the digital world, but that it needs to significantly reinvent itself to understand digital interactions.

Question 2

Provide the term for the following definitions:
-In Bitzer, a rhetorical response that is dictated to the rhetor by the rhetorical situation.

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(fitting response)

Question 3

Andrea Lunsford theorizes that the "literacy revolution" taking place with the rise of digital technology exhibits qualities that directly connect to the classical rhetorical tradition.

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A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 4

Kenneth Burke used the term ___________________ to describe the fact that every language or choice of words becomes a filter through which we see the world.

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The answer of Kenneth Burke used the term ___________________ to...

Question 5

Identify a novel or movie in which you can identify a rhetorical component. Explain how this novel or movie is rhetorical. Is your example "polyphonic" in Bakhtin's sense of the term?

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Students may identify movies w

Question 6

Why did Bakhtin consider that discourse is always ideological and social?

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Bakhtin believed that language is never

Question 7

What are the key terms in Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad? What do the terms describe?

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Burke's dramatistic pentad is an analyti

Question 8

Describe the quality that Mikhail Bakhtin found intriguing in the novels of Dostoevsky. What name did Bakhtin give this quality?

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Mikhail Bakhtin found the polyphonic nat

Question 9

__________________, one of the most influential proponents of rhetoric as situational, and author of The Rhetorical Situation, emphasized identifying the exigence, or problem, that a rhetorical act is in response to.

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The answer of __________________, one of the most influential proponents...

Question 10

What changes might be made in how we approach the online experience that would render it more productive of civil discourse that might improve democracy?

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Students will likely raise issues such a

Question 11

What is meant by the "rhetoric of display"?

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The rhetoric of display focuses on the v

Question 12

What is Wayne Booth's position of the possibility of an author of fiction being "invisible"?

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Booth writes that it is impossible for a

Question 13

Draw on two theorists discussed in Chapter Ten to describe how the notion of rhetoric can be expanded to encompass human communication activities beyond the traditional speech or written argument. What kinds of activities has each sought to account for as rhetorical? What kinds of theoretical mechanisms has each developed to assist readers in understanding a realm of human rhetorical activity broader than the speech?

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One theorist discussed in Chapter Ten wh

Question 14

Provide the term for the following definitions:
-Burke's definition of rhetoric.

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(symbolic

Question 15

What is Laurie Gries' specific concern when she writes that "language has been granted too much power in rhetorical studies"?

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Laurie Gries believes that rhetorical st

Question 16

Digital rhetorics represent a combination of a rhetoric of display with traditional textual presentations of rhetoric.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

One of the defining characteristics of contemporary rhetoric is that scholars have emphasized rhetoric as situational and focus on the underlying structures of rhetoric in cultural contexts.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

To express a state of identification, Kenneth Burke uses the term ____________________, which he borrowed from theology, to communicate humans' desire for a commonality of substance.

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The answer of To express a state of identification, Kenneth...

Question 19

Provide the term for the following definitions:
-A term referring to the observation of Andrea Lunsford that we are witnessing in digital literacy a return to traditional rhetorical concerns-discourse as audience-adapted, persuasive, responsive, and planned.

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The answer of Provide the term for the following definitions:
-A...

Question 20

Define Kenneth Burke's notion of form, and briefly describe any three types of form identified by Burke.

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Kenneth Burke's notion of form refers to

What are the reasons Douglas Eyman sets out for articulating "a specific formulation for digital rhetoric"?

Provide the term for the following definitions: -In Bitzer, a rhetorical response that is dictated to the rhetor by the rhetorical situation.

Andrea Lunsford theorizes that the "literacy revolution" taking place with the rise of digital technology exhibits qualities that directly connect to the classical rhetorical tradition.

Kenneth Burke used the term ___________________ to describe the fact that every language or choice of words becomes a filter through which we see the world.

Identify a novel or movie in which you can identify a rhetorical component. Explain how this novel or movie is rhetorical. Is your example "polyphonic" in Bakhtin's sense of the term?

Why did Bakhtin consider that discourse is always ideological and social?

What are the key terms in Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad? What do the terms describe?

Describe the quality that Mikhail Bakhtin found intriguing in the novels of Dostoevsky. What name did Bakhtin give this quality?

__________________, one of the most influential proponents of rhetoric as situational, and author of The Rhetorical Situation, emphasized identifying the exigence, or problem, that a rhetorical act is in response to.

What changes might be made in how we approach the online experience that would render it more productive of civil discourse that might improve democracy?

What is meant by the "rhetoric of display"?

What is Wayne Booth's position of the possibility of an author of fiction being "invisible"?

Provide the term for the following definitions: -Burke's definition of rhetoric.

What is Laurie Gries' specific concern when she writes that "language has been granted too much power in rhetorical studies"?

Digital rhetorics represent a combination of a rhetoric of display with traditional textual presentations of rhetoric.

One of the defining characteristics of contemporary rhetoric is that scholars have emphasized rhetoric as situational and focus on the underlying structures of rhetoric in cultural contexts.

To express a state of identification, Kenneth Burke uses the term ____________________, which he borrowed from theology, to communicate humans' desire for a commonality of substance.

Provide the term for the following definitions: -A term referring to the observation of Andrea Lunsford that we are witnessing in digital literacy a return to traditional rhetorical concerns-discourse as audience-adapted, persuasive, responsive, and planned.

Define Kenneth Burke's notion of form, and briefly describe any three types of form identified by Burke.

An Overview of Rhetoric

The Origins and Early History of Rhetoric

Plato Vs the Sophists: Rhetoric on Trial

Aristotle on Rhetoric

Rhetoric at Rome

Rhetoric in Christian Europe

Rhetoric in the Renaissance

Enlightenment Rhetoric

Contemporary Rhetoric I: Arguments, Audiences, Advocates

Contemporary Rhetoric III: Texts, Power, Alternatives

Rhetoric and Ancient Greek Philosophy

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Exam 10: Contemporary Rhetoric II: Situation, Story, Display

What are the reasons Douglas Eyman sets out for articulating "a specific formulation for digital rhetoric"?

Provide the term for the following definitions: -In Bitzer, a rhetorical response that is dictated to the rhetor by the rhetorical situation.

Andrea Lunsford theorizes that the "literacy revolution" taking place with the rise of digital technology exhibits qualities that directly connect to the classical rhetorical tradition.

Kenneth Burke used the term ___________________ to describe the fact that every language or choice of words becomes a filter through which we see the world.

Identify a novel or movie in which you can identify a rhetorical component. Explain how this novel or movie is rhetorical. Is your example "polyphonic" in Bakhtin's sense of the term?

Why did Bakhtin consider that discourse is always ideological and social?

What are the key terms in Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad? What do the terms describe?

Describe the quality that Mikhail Bakhtin found intriguing in the novels of Dostoevsky. What name did Bakhtin give this quality?

__________________, one of the most influential proponents of rhetoric as situational, and author of The Rhetorical Situation, emphasized identifying the exigence, or problem, that a rhetorical act is in response to.

What changes might be made in how we approach the online experience that would render it more productive of civil discourse that might improve democracy?

What is meant by the "rhetoric of display"?

What is Wayne Booth's position of the possibility of an author of fiction being "invisible"?

Provide the term for the following definitions: -Burke's definition of rhetoric.

What is Laurie Gries' specific concern when she writes that "language has been granted too much power in rhetorical studies"?

Digital rhetorics represent a combination of a rhetoric of display with traditional textual presentations of rhetoric.

One of the defining characteristics of contemporary rhetoric is that scholars have emphasized rhetoric as situational and focus on the underlying structures of rhetoric in cultural contexts.

To express a state of identification, Kenneth Burke uses the term ____________________, which he borrowed from theology, to communicate humans' desire for a commonality of substance.

Provide the term for the following definitions: -A term referring to the observation of Andrea Lunsford that we are witnessing in digital literacy a return to traditional rhetorical concerns-discourse as audience-adapted, persuasive, responsive, and planned.

Define Kenneth Burke's notion of form, and briefly describe any three types of form identified by Burke.

An Overview of Rhetoric

The Origins and Early History of Rhetoric

Plato Vs the Sophists: Rhetoric on Trial

Aristotle on Rhetoric

Rhetoric at Rome

Rhetoric in Christian Europe

Rhetoric in the Renaissance

Enlightenment Rhetoric

Contemporary Rhetoric I: Arguments, Audiences, Advocates

Contemporary Rhetoric III: Texts, Power, Alternatives

Rhetoric and Ancient Greek Philosophy

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