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

Some literary critics have argued that the author should remain invisible in the work of fiction. What is Wayne Booth's position on this possibility? What does he mean by the term "the rhetoric of fiction"?

What is materialism, and how does this movement redefine agency?

Michel Bakhtin was drawn to which of the following novelists for his ability to write "a plurality of independent and unmerged voices," that allowed for equal and developed perspectives in dialogue?

Provide the term for the following definitions: -Bakhtin's term for quality of narrative in which each character is fully developed and speaks fully his or her perspective on the world.

What quality of social media content algorithms does Zeynep Tufekci point out?

Provide the term for the following definitions: -What Burke refers to as "an arousing and fulfilling desire in an audience."

In your opinion, what kinds of rhetoric would Kenneth Burke's theory be most likely to help one to understand?

Provide the term for the following definitions: -Burke's term to describe the fact that every language or choice of words becomes a filter through which we perceive the world.

Would classical theories of rhetoric be adequate for explaining and evaluating visual rhetoric, or do we need a new rhetorical theory of the rhetoric of display?

What factors might a rhetorical theory for the digital age include that earlier theories of rhetoric have not? How, for example, would such a theory accommodate the social networking phenomenon as contrasted to a traditional speaker-audience model?

For Walter Fisher, the five criteria of fact, relevance, consequence, consistency, and transcendent issue should be used to evaluate the ___________________ of a narrative.

What quality did Mikhail Bakhtin find intriguing in the novels of Dostoevsky?

A recent development in rhetorical theory is the rhetoric of ___________________, which is a movement that analyzes the visual aspects of rhetoric.

What role has narrative played in the life of groups of which you have been a part?

For Lloyd Bitzer, the rhetorical audience is only comprised of those who are capable of being influenced by discourse and capable of being mediators of change.

Provide an overview of the rhetorical theory of Kenneth Burke, as discussed in the text. Specifically, what is the goal of his work? What is he seeking to encourage or to bring about by his theory?

For Bormann, symbolic convergence is the longer story a group tells of its history that results from its shared vision and stories.

Wayne Booth, as a literary critic, argued that the author of a book exercises rhetorical control over a narrative and can completely disguise or remove their voice from the reader's view.

Provide the term for the following definitions: -Burke's "grammar of motives," consisting of act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose.

What is Andrea Lunsford's "new literacy"?