Deck 6: Analyzing Form

Question 1

_______________ is the arrangement and sequencing of message elements; it concerns howideas can be organized for maximum impact.

A) Grammar
B) Form
C) Genre
D) Structure
E) Linguistics

Answer 1

D

Question 2

________________ refers to the meaning audiences generate when they take in a message.

A) Grammar
B) Form
C) Genre
D) Structure
E) Linguistics

Answer 2

B

Question 3

_________________ can be defined as a class of messages sharing important structural andcontent features created to meet the expectations of an audience.

A) Grammar
B) Form
C) Genre
D) Structure
E) Linguistics

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Chapter 6 notes that the South Carolina legislature and governor permanently banished theConfederate battle flag from a memorial on the grounds of the state Capitol in the aftermathof a white supremacist's fatal shooting of nine African Americans, including a state senator,in a South Carolina church. The flag previously had flown on the grounds for decades. Thisexample illustrates how _________________ has the power to overwhelm__________________

A) linguistics, genre.
B) genre, linguistics.
C) structure, form.
D) form, structure.

Question 5

Studying genre amounts to identifying and understanding rhetorical

A) ideas.
B) constraints.
C) freedoms.
D) arguments

Question 6

Message ________________ concerns how ideas are distributed and ordered.

A) pacing
B) emphasis
C) compactness
D) policy

Question 7

Message _________________ looks at the depth of attention paid to individual ideas.

A) pacing
B) emphasis
C) compactness
D) policy

Question 8

In examining whether a piece of rhetoric meets the requirements of its genre, the critic willexamine the _________________

A) rhetor's motives.
B) audience reaction.
C) patterns in the text.
D) rhetor's choice of grammar.

Question 9

A common structural technique in persuasion is the "motivational sequence," which followsa fixed pattern of

A) addressing attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, and action.
B) gradually eliminating every solution but one.
C) developing a clear solution to remedy a stated problem.
D) arranging ideas by relative importance, familiarity, or complexity.

Question 10

A form of speech influenced by religion that has been popular since the days of the ThirteenColonies in the United States is sometimes adapted to create a rationale for potentiallycontroversial political actions. It describes sin, threatens punishment, demands repentance, and promises reward. The genre is known as the

A) oikos.
B) reconciliation.
C) jeremiad.
D) anatta