Pentadic criticism is rooted in Burke's notion of...
What is dramatism?
100
Dramatism is...
What is " the analysis of human motivation through terms derived form the study of drama"?
100
The first step in Pentadic analysis...
What is selecting an artifact?
100
These are the two assumptions of dramatism...
What is "language use constitutes action not motion and motion corresponds to the biological or animal aspect of the human being"?
100
The term "pentad" is related to which shape...
What is a pentagon?
200
This is Burke's first name...
Who is Kenneth?
200
Two of these underline dramatism...
What are assumptions?
200
The second step in Pentadic analysis...
What is analyzing the artifact?
200
The biological level of the human being does not involve this...
What is the use of symbols?
200
Like a pentagon, Burke's pentadic criticism has this many basic elements or points...
What is 5?
300
Burke's "official" title was...
What is a literary theorist?
300
What do the five basic elements of drama answer? (Hint: 5 Ws and an H)
What is who, what, when, where, why, and how?
300
The third step in Pentadic analysis...
What is formulating a research question?
300
Burke defines this as the as the ability of an organism to acquire language or a symbol system...
What is action?
300
This seeks to answer the question "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it?"...
What is pentadic criticism?
400
According to Foss, Burke was this to the creation of many different critical methods...
What is an inspiration?
400
What are the five basic elements of drama?
What is act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose?
400
The fourth step in Pentadic analysis...
What is writing the essay?
400
Bodily processes such as growth, digestion, respiration, and the requirements for the maintenance of those processes relate to this...
What is motion?
400
The ground, location, or situation in which the rhetor says the act takes place – the kind of stage the rhetor sets when describing physical conditions, social and culture influences or historical causes...
What is the scene?
500
Burke note these as his sources for the pentad...
What is Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" and Talcott Parson's "The Structure of Social Action"?
500
What was Burke's later added sixth term to the basic elements of drama?
What is attitude?
500
When analyzing the artifact, the two operations that are performed by a critic are...
What is (1) labeling the five terms in the artifact and (2) applying the ratios to identify the dominant term?
500
Action corresponds to this aspect of the human being...