Comm Models and Rhetorical Situation
Narrative
Audience Analysis
Cannons of Rhetoric
Icing on the cake!
100
The three parts of the rhetorical situation. What is...?
What is exigence, audience, and constraints?
100
When scrutinizing the main points of your narrative, what are four questions you can ask of each point?
Essential? Distinct? Simple? Complete?
100
How is audience analysis different from stereotyping?
Probabilities instead of certainties, also, looking at more nuanced questions of identity, like values and personalities.
100
All the cannons of rhetoric, in order.
What are invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery?
100
Definition: "including only details that pertain to the main idea"... What term does this definition belong to?
Narrative conciseness
200
The five parts of the linear model of communication. What is...?
What are the sender, receiver, message, channel, and context?
200
What does it mean to understand narrative as rhetoric?
It means understanding rhetoric as a means of persuasion concerned with the effects it produces and with generation of good reason.
200
Creating a bond with listeners by emphasizing common values, goals, and experiences.
What is identification?
200
Give me one type of rhythmic stylistic elements and give an example.
What is alliteration/onomatopoeia/repetition/parallel wording/antithesis
200
What is this an example of: "My degree, my work experience, and my ability to complete complicated projects qualify me for this job."
What is parallel wording?
300
Within the rhetorical situation, define an exigence and give me three examples.
~ "an imperfection marked by urgency that can be solved by discourse"
300
If you want to explain setting by looking at where something occurred, you could elaborate on...
geographic location, time, weather, social condition, landscape / environment, sensory details / description
300
To understand my audience better, I am asking questions like, "What are the values of this audience?", "What does this audience like and dislike?" - I am engaging in what kind of audience analysis?
What is psychographic audience analysis?
300
Give me three techniques for getting audience attention in introductions.
What is referring to a recent event or occasion, identifying with the audience, using a quotation, telling a story, using a startling statement, using humor
300
What is the difference between repetition and parallel wording?
Repetition is about repeating words, parallel wording is about the same grammatical structure.
400
What are the four sources of constraint on the rhetorical situation?
What are contextual, audience, topical, and speaker constraints?
400
Give a unique example of narrating how something was done with depth.
1. Action (e.g., telling my partner) 2. Emotion (e.g., I was scared) 3. Detail (e.g., my voice quivered)
400
What two levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs do speeches typically try to fulfill?
What are social and self-esteem needs?
400
Name and define four vocal components of delivery
What are volume, rate/pace, pitch, tone, pronunciation, articulation, pauses, fluency, and vocal variety.
400
How does one advocate effectively? What is...?
What is educate, argue, motivate?
500
The interaction model adds in the element of "communication as a sharing of meaning". The linear model gives us 5 parts of communication... what 6 parts does the interaction model add on?
What are feedback, encoding, decoding, signs, symbols, and noise?
500
Give a unique example of a character. Give an example of "telling" us about one quality of the character, and give a corresponding example "showing" us that quality.
Example: Telling - she was a thief. Showing - She used to shoplift nail polish from CVS.
500
You just learned you have to give a presentation to a bunch of architects. You know that they are what _____ type(s) of personalities, and give two examples of things you will do to reach them.
What are analytics and conceptuals, Paint a picture of where things are headed within the speech, Tell stories, use analogies, Use photos and images to tell story, State the big picture early; Prepare and distribute handouts, the processes you used to obtain your information, Present statistics and quantifiable data
500
Name and define four ways to connect ideas, according to the arrangement cannon.
What are vocal transitions (using the voice to signal movement from one point to another), internal summaries (a brief recap of the previous point, with a lead-in to the next point), internal previews (previewing the main points within the body of the speech), and signposting (giving the listener a clear indication of which main point you are dealing with, often by using repetition).
500
What are three factors in becoming an effective public speaker?
What is natural ability, instruction in the principles of effective speech, and practical experience - practice practice practice!
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