Is This Bitzer?
This is an example of _____.
What is Missing from the Situation?
What Kind of Audience is This?
100
This person believes the situation controls the rhetorical response.
Yes; who is Bitzer?
100
You are visiting Florida State University, trying to convince the students to transfer to University of Florida. The students adamantly refuse.
What is a constraint?
100
Presidential candidates are debating over national issues in an attempt to gain the approval of voters so they can do this.
What is exigence (win the election)? Audience: voters. Constraints: national issues.
100
This type of audience is found in every classroom in Florida State University.
What is a scientific audience?
200
This person believes exigence invites utterance.
Yes; who is Bitzer?
200
One of the rising problems that is happening in the United States is mass shootings and has become one of the main talking points in the presidential debates.
What is exigence?
200
You are failing class. The only way you can change this is by talking to your teacher and asking them if you are able to do this.
What is a constraint (extra credit work)? Exigence: you are failing. Audience: your teacher.
200
This type of audience would be interested in a Ted Talk held by Rajesh Rao explaining the process he and his colleagues are undertaking to decipher one of the last undeciphered languages on Earth, the Indus Script.
What is a scientific audience?
300
This person believes the art of rhetoric must meet two conditions: integrity and receptivity.
No; who is Consigny?
300
If the student body petitions for the school to ban smoking on campus and they succeed, the student body is the mediator of change.
What is audience?
300
You are trying to switch your major from English to Public Relations, but this missing element informs you that you do not meet the GPA requirement.
What is an audience (Guidance Counselor)? Exigence:Changing majors. Constraints: GPA requirement.
300
Soujourner Truth delivered a speech to this type of audience in Akron, Ohio in 1851 that was later given the name "Ain't I a Woman?". Her short, simple speech was a powerful rebuke to many antifeminist arguments of the day. It became, and continues to serve, as a classic expression of women's rights.
What is a poetic audience?
400
Discourse obtains its character from the situation which generates it.
Yes; who is Bitzer?
400
Politicians must go through discourse in an attempt to come to an agreement on how the country should be ran. After discourse, they must go through the process of changing the laws.
What is rhetoric?
400
You attend a rally for Republican candidates, and easily convince the entire audience to vote for Donald Trump without the use of these.
What are constraints (facts, experience and statistics)?Audience: voters. Exigence: choosing the next President.
400
The social movement Black Lives Matter addresses this type of audience.
What is a rhetorical audience? (From the website: "#BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society.")
500
This person believes utterance invites exigence.
No; who is Vatz?
500
A politician using facts and statistics in order to strengthen his argument that the elderly should be required to retake their driving exam every year is an example of this.
What is an inartistic proof?
500
You are alone in your room in Flint, Michigan, and discover several ways to end the water crisis. The next step to solving the crisis is this.
What is audience (inform the masses/speak to government officials)? Exigence: Flint water crisis. Constraints: your ideas to fix it.
500
Bill Nye gave a speech at Florida State University in 2014 educating this type of audience on the truths of global warming, and how they can prevent it.
What is a rhetorical audience?
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