Presentation aids are to be used to:
a) enhance clarity
b) help your audience retain information
c) add interest/variety
d) All of the above
e) All of the above plus many more reasons Correct Answer: d
If a spea
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Presentation aids are to be used to:
a) enhance clarity
b) help your audience retain information
c) add interest/variety
d) All of the above
e) All of the above plus many more reasons Correct Answer: d
If a speaker decides that his or her specific purpose will be to provide new arguments and information in order to persuade his or her listeners, this is a sign of:
a) adapting well to a favorable audience
b) adapting well to a hostile audience
c) adapting well to a neutral audience
d) all of the above
e) none of the above Correct Answer: c
Persuasion can be best discussed as:
a) motivating the audience to action
b) using appeals to alter audience attitudes
c) increasing the audience's commitment to your central idea
d) arguing on the basis of fact, not policy
e) alterations of audience attitude and belief Correct Answer: c
If a visiting professor is asked to give a lecture on a topic she is unfamiliar with and finds that during her speech she does not know enough facts and gives inaccurate information, the professor is most likely experiencing problems with which of Cicero's canons of rhetoric?
a) memory
b) style
c) delivery
d) arrangement
e) invention Correct Answer: e (inadequate preparation = invention)
As described in both lecture and the book, the term logos refers to:
a) pure logic
b) eloquence
c) the content, structure and style of the speech
d) the physical, social and emotional space where the communication takes place
e) all of the above Correct Answer: c
The Rhetoric of Aristotle functions Correct Answer: upholding truth
teaching an audience
analyzing both sides of a question
defending oneself
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