Quiz 2 Flashcards
Reader’s Theatre focuses on what ?
Reader’s Theatre focused on language, limited props, and illuminating the text for the audience. This methodology of interpretation focused on the presentational mode of performance.
Intrapersonal Communication primarily focuses on:
Self-talk or internal dialogue
Examples of cultural performances
All of the above Correct
b. The Olympics
c. A Wedding
d. The Super Bowl
The initial source credibility is the ethos that is produced during the communicational act.
False
Your credibility can be damaged by:
Underestimating your terminal ethos
which of the following is an example of a relationship of choice:
A girlfriend/boyfriend/partner
The terminal source credibility of today is the initial source credibility of tomorrow.
True
Aristotle proposed that in order to build ethos, one must possess three qualities. Which of the following is NOT one of those qualities?
Believability
Who were the teachers/orators/practitioners who taught the skills of rhetoric needed for Democracy to citizens for payment?
Sophists
The speaker’s ______________ is a constructed image of themself. It is the speaker’s “public face” that is used to create favorable first impressions.
Persona
What is an empirical audience?
the audience that physically exists in a particular place and time and hears the actual speech when its given.
Target Audience
the group of people able to be persuaded and capable of acting in such a way to facilitate the interests of the rhetor. Finding out who they are makes the persuasion more effective.
Evoked Audience
is the textual construction of the audience created by the rhetor for the purposes of persuasion. A second persona, a fiction, function is to create a n attractive image of unity that makes members of an audience desire to be part of.
Identification
identify with someone we see ourselves as sharing quality or experience. Comes after the revelation of a life experience. process by which a rhetor draws parallels and makes connections between his or her persona and the evoked audience in an effort to establish an actual connection with the target audience.
Distinction
Not the most effective rhetorical strategy. the persona of the rhetor stands apart from the evoked audience. In identification cases, the persona of the rhetor is fused with that of the evoked audience. Both represent forms of credibility, but distinction is credibility from expertise while identification is credibility from likeness.
