Chapter 3 (Rhetoric by Richard Toye)

Question 1

What does chapter 3 in the book focus on?

Answer 1

the last 100 years of rhetoric

Question 2

What was a prominent part in Academia that contributed to a change in viewing Rhetoric?

Answer 2

The rise of the English department

Question 3

in the early 19th century what was the English department focused on?

Answer 3

the STRUCTURE and HISTORY of English and Language

Question 4

in the 20th century what was the English department focused on?

Answer 4

a) teaching literature
b) changing towards literature

Question 5

What was a result from the 20th century English department?

Answer 5

it created a breeding ground for new rhetoric

Question 6

Besides the English department what also led to the advancement of Rhetoric?

Answer 6

New Media

Question 7

What are some areas that define new media?

Answer 7

a) widespread literacy
b) radio
c) moving pictures (tv/cinema)

Question 8

How did widespread literacy play into rhetoric

Answer 8

a) because of the GUTENBERG PRESS and the widespread publishing of the BIBLE
b) literacy was now accessible and the majority could read
c) magazines becomes prominent photography included

Question 9

Why did widespread literacy play into rhetoric?

Answer 9

One didn’t need to be present but could instead read it at a later point

Question 10

Why id the radio play into rhetoric?

Answer 10

rather then just reading about a speech it allowed one to now HEAR a speech thus making it important for the rhetor to have a focus on voice, crowd in all matters of speech

-yet the radio further plays a part in rhetoric by going from public into the private lives within a home (PARASOCIAL)

Question 11

How did the radio play into rhetoric?

Answer 11

because of ELECTRICITY being establish it allowed the advancement for radio waves and this producing the RADIO

Question 12

What is parasocial?

Answer 12

Parasocial interaction refers to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their mediated encounters with performers in the mass media

Question 13

How did moving pictures (cinema/tv) affect rhetoric?

Answer 13

a) theatres used to run 24/7
b) tvs’s enter the picture and allows one to listen and SEE the rhetor
c) Churchill learnt new demagoguery
d) fireside chat evolves from this

Question 14

What was a massive change to politicians and rhetors in their conduct?

Answer 14

moving pictures (cinema/tv)

Question 15

What was the significant evolution in the moving pictures era?

Answer 15

real-time satellite tv

Question 16

Toye states: having to admit that now the _____ was the_____ that the ______ had fallen into oblivion, that questions that had formed parts of his concern had floated away and being treated by other______ (pg.75-75)

Answer 16

1) new rhetoric
2) perception
3) rhetorical study
4)disciplines

Question 17

Who formulated the example of the meme that Richard Toye uses as an example in the book?

Answer 17

Richard Dawkins

Question 18

Richard Dawkins states: Student of_____ need to be_____ when it comes to selecting their_____

Answer 18

a) rhetoric
b) openminded
c) approach

Question 19

Richard Dawkins states: Equally follows that there’s____ of a single_______ grasping all of the______literatures in their______

Answer 19

a)little hope
b) individual
c)relevant
d) entirety

Question 20

Richard Dawkins states: and there can be ______ in _______ that takes______ wherever it be, where it happens to be found.

Answer 20

a) no shame
b) eclecticism
c)inspiration

Question 21

What has Quentin skinner done? has done much to_____ and_____ into ________

Answer 21

a) integrate speech
b) act theory
c) philosophy

Question 22

Pre Quentin Skinner there was a strong tendency to do what?

Answer 22

treat classical political writings as representing stages in a sort of progression towards modern thinking (ie using texts from old thinking the authors wrote them for today)

Question 23

What did Quentin Skinner reject?

Answer 23

Timeless text

Question 24

What is the illusion of language?

Answer 24

that words have fixed meaning?

Question 25

William Epsons states: In the______ of this_____, there must always be room for______

Answer 25

a) face
b) reality
c) interpretation

Question 26

William Epson states: any_____however slight, which gives room for_______ to the same piece of_______

Answer 26

a) verbal nuance
b) alternative reactions
c) language

Question 27

To Kenneth Burke Language is more important to be understand not as______ but as the_______ they represent

Answer 27

a) words themselves
b) symbols

Question 28

Burke argued that rhetoric is “rooted in… the use of_____ as a_______ means of inducing_____ in beings that by_____ nature respond to symbols

Answer 28

a) language
b) symbolic
c) cooperation

Question 29

What did burke believes symbols to be a part of?

Answer 29

identifications

Question 30

In the book what does Burke Represent

Answer 30

a) symbols
b) identification

Question 31

In the book what does Quentin Skinner Represent?

Answer 31

a) timeless text
b) fixed meaning of words

Question 32

In the book what does William Epson represent?

Answer 32

that words of interpretation