Name one author we've read earlier this semester that Burke mentions in "Grammar of Motives"
Who is Karl Marx or Aristotle?
100
"The scene contains the act" but "one could say the scene" also contains these (shh- it's a secret) -p 1302
What are the agents?
100
Burke seems to have considered THIS as a possible 6th key term, although it is "often the preparation for an act" (1312).
What is "attitude"? (1312)
100
Burke says "...you must indicate what person or kind of person performed the act" (1298)
Who is the agent?
200
"Any statements in which these grammatical resources are specifically utilized" (1299)
What are "philosophies"?
200
Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is, according to Burke, "a good instance of the way in which the scene-agent ratio can be used for the depiction of" THIS
What is "character"? (1305)
200
Burke uses THIS O'Neill play to "present a contrasting instance of the scene-act ratio"
What is "Mourning Becomes Electra"? (1304)
200
THIS is "a major resource for Rhetoric," according to Burke. (1317)
What is "The ambiguity of substance"?
200
The broadest definition of the term "act" given by Burke in the section "Ubiquity of the Ratios" (1307-9)
What is "any verb...that has connotations of consciousness or purpose" (1308)
300
A single word to classify the "you and me" quality of Dramatism. (1299)
What is Rhetoric?
300
The agent (Burke) left the scene through involuntary cardiac agency, for an unknown purpose (probably old age) in THIS year (Prince changed his name to an un-utterable symbol)
What is 1993?
300
The "nature of acts and agents should be consistent with the nature of" THIS (1302)
What is the scene?
300
The "restricting of the scene calls in turn for a corresponding restriction upon" THIS
(see Scene-Agent Ratio pp 1305-6)
What is "personality, or role"? (1306)
300
"The corresponding philospohic terminology" for "scene" (see 1323)
What is "materialism"?
400
"The forms and methods of" THIS "best illustrate the concerns of Symbolic" (1300)
What is "art"?
400
According to Burke, Aristotle once said "Nature...is like a doctor" doing THIS to "himself" (see Grammatical Steps to Naturalism, 1320-2)
What is doctoring? (1321)
400
Finish this quote: "any act could be treated as part of the context that modifies the _______ _______"
What are "the subsequent acts"?
400
Human figures in paintings by THIS artist, according to Burke, "seem on the point of dissolving into their background" (1306)
Who is Georges Seurat?
400
Burke's example of a "scenic" statement: you might want to check your watch (see "Ubiquity of the Ratios" 1307-9)
What is "It is 12:20 p.m." (1307).
500
The "resources of ambiguity" allow for many kinds of THIS to take place (sorry, no interplanetary robots)
What is transformation? (1300)
500
THIS "titular word" invites us to "consider the matter of motives in a perspective that...treats language and thought primarily as modes of action"
What is dramatism? (1302)
500
A reversal of the formula (1303)
What is "the act contains its scenes"?
500
The TV show "The Office" has a runnning joke: "That's what she said."
Using Burke's Pentad, if "She" refers to the Agent, then "Said" my refer to THIS term.
What is the Act? (1298)
500
This term, coined by Burke, sounds like something President George W. Bush might use to describe his own speaking style (was he a Burke-ite?) see p 1305