Chapter 23 - Dramatism

Question 1

Identification

Answer 1

Recognized common ground between speaker and audience (includes physical characteristics, talents, occupations, experiences, personality, beliefs, attitudes)

Question 2

Dramatistic Pentad

Answer 2

Tool to analyze how a speaker attempts to get an audience to accept his/her view of reality, using 5 elements of human drama: act, scene, agent, agency, purpose

Question 3

Act (Part of Dramatistic Pentad)

Answer 3

What was done, said (response)

Question 4

Scene (Part of Dramatistic Pentad)

Answer 4

Context, where, and when act was performed

Question 5

Agent (Part of Dramatistic Pentad)

Answer 5

Person or people who performed the act

Question 6

Agency (Part of Dramatistic Pentad)

Answer 6

The means used by agent to perform the act

Question 7

Purpose (Part of Dramatistic Pentad)

Answer 7

The stated or implied goal of the act

Question 8

God Term

Answer 8

The word(s) used that elicit a positive response; can’t be interpreted by negatively; all other positives are subservient

Question 9

Devil Term

Answer 9

The word(s) that sum up all that is regarded as bad, wrong, evil (can’t be positive)

Question 10

Guilt/Redemption Cycle (Burke)

Answer 10

The motivation of all rhetoric is to rid ourselves of ever-present guilt

Question 11

Guilt

Answer 11

A broad term including tension, anxiety, embarrassment, shame, disgust, etc.

Question 12

2 Choices to Purge Guilt

Answer 12

1. Mortification (religious term) - confession of guilt and request for forgiveness.
2. Victimage - the process of blaming one’s problems (or social problems) on someone else; scapegoating