Ethos, Logos, and Pathos | CMST 2060 - PUBLIC SPEAKING, Quizzes of Communication and Presentation Skills

Download Ethos, Logos, and Pathos | CMST 2060 - PUBLIC SPEAKING and more Quizzes Communication and Presentation Skills in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Public DEFINITION 1 Difference between public and private persona- Ethos refers to the _______________. TERM 2 Ethos DEFINITION 2 The capacity to influence an audience based on audiences perceptions of the credibility and character of the speaker in relationship to their own interests and values: TERM 3 Ethos DEFINITION 3 Determined by relationship one has to the audience: TERM 4 Inherited Ethos DEFINITION 4 The actual reputation that a rhetor carries with them because of an audiences acquaintance with past behavior: TERM 5 Inherited Ethos DEFINITION 5 Unspoken credibility that needs no mention to function: TERM 6 Persona DEFINITION 6 the constructed ethos that a rhetor creates of him or herself within the confines of a particular rhetorical text: TERM 7 first impressions DEFINITION 7 Persona is important for _______________________. TERM 8 1) Apologist 2) Agent 3) Partisan 4) Hero DEFINITION 8 Four reoccurring persona: 1) ? 2) ? 3) ? 4) ? TERM 9 Apologist DEFINITION 9 Employed when speakers wish to rebuff attack by appearing the virtuous victim of an unjust accusation: TERM 10 Agent DEFINITION 10 Speaks on behalf of some institution as a spokesperson of legitimate authority: TERM 21 1) Terrorists 2) Political Parties DEFINITION 21 What are two examples of Polarization? 1) ? 2) ? TERM 22 natural state of human behavior DEFINITION 22 Polarization can appear to be unethical, but division is a "______________________________________." TERM 23 The Diatribe DEFINITION 23 a speech whose only function is to provoke an audience to self-reflection by directly attacking and ridiculing its most valorized conventions, values, attitudes, and beliefs: TERM 24 shock value DEFINITION 24 A Diatribe gathers an audience because of _____________________. TERM 25 Logos DEFINITION 25 Refers to the use of rational arguments and evidence to persuade an audience of the reasonableness of ones position: TERM 26 Logos DEFINITION 26 Based on the belief that human beings are rational with the potential to make decisions based on logic, principles, and evidence. TERM 27 1) Logical Reasoning 2) Narrative Reasoning DEFINITION 27 Reasoning comes in two primary forms: 1) ? 2) ? TERM 28 Logical Reasoning DEFINITION 28 the use of inferences and profess to establish relationships between propositions which warrant specific conclusions TERM 29 our beliefs DEFINITION 29 Logical Reasoning provides reasons for ______________________. TERM 30 Narrative Reasoning DEFINITION 30 addresses matters of fact in terms of linear stories that paint a more vivid picture of a scene: TERM 31 1) Claim 2) Grounds 3) Warrant DEFINITION 31 Reasoning consists primarily of the relationship between three things: 1) ? 2) ? 3) ? TERM 32 Claim DEFINITION 32 The primary position or conclusion being advanced by a speaker. TERM 33 Grounds DEFINITION 33 The supporting evidence for the claim. TERM 34 Warrant DEFINITION 34 The inferential leap that connects the Claim with the Ground, usually embodied in a principle, provision, or chain of reasoning. TERM 35 1) Backing 2) Rebuttal 3) Qualification DEFINITION 35 The relationship between Claim, Grounds, and Warrant are made complicated by: 1) ? 2) ? 3) ? TERM 46 Analogy DEFINITION 46 Purpose is to help understand a potentially confused or problematic situation by drawing parallels with another, more familiar one. TERM 47 Analogy DEFINITION 47 I know what you mean" is an example of : TERM 48 Sign DEFINITION 48 Attempting to make the unseen into something tangible and objectiveDiagnose the reason behind things. TERM 49 Causation DEFINITION 49 Causal reasoning embodied in If-Then statements TERM 50 Principle DEFINITION 50 Ethical responsibility of the rhetor to select principles that are both accurate and acknowledged by the audience, as to not reaffirm false beliefs. TERM 51 fallacy DEFINITION 51 A ______________ is an argument that probably should have never been made in the form/context they were delivered. TERM 52 Either/Or DEFINITION 52 Presents audiences with a stark choice by presenting two clear but completely opposite and incompatible alternatives based on excessive exaggeration of good and bad qualities. TERM 53 Slippery Slope DEFINITION 53 Exaggerates the series of inevitable and terrible consequences that will follow from performing some action. TERM 54 Bandwagon DEFINITION 54 Form of an argument that encourages an audience to do something simply because a majority of other people is doing it. TERM 55 AdHominem DEFINITION 55 Agumentative strategy that undermines an opposing position by attacking the personal character of its advocates rather than the position itself. TERM 56 False Cause DEFINITION 56 Strategy of attributing causes or effects based on ones immediate desires or fears rather than an objective study of the process. TERM 57 Scapegoating DEFINITION 57 When the cause of undesired effects is attributed falsely to a marginalized group of people who are generally powerless to defend themselves. TERM 58 Red Herring DEFINITION 58 The attempt by a rhetor to distract attention from an issue unpleasant to oneself by focusing attention on something unrelated, more sensational, and more beneficial to ones self-interest. TERM 59 Non Sequitur DEFINITION 59 A statement that has no apparent connection with the statements that came before or come after. TERM 60 Narrative Rationality DEFINITION 60 When people use stories instead of claims made in empirical data and warranted by logical reasoning. TERM 71 immediate emotional resonance DEFINITION 71 Red Heiring is most effective when issue being pointed to also has __________________________________ with an audience. TERM 72 Non Sequitur DEFINITION 72 Logical fallacy that comes out of nowhere. TERM 73 Stories DEFINITION 73 The aim of this is to give meaning to ideas by showing how they function over time in peoples lives and in the environment." TERM 74 Narrative DEFINITION 74 A dramatic story that creates a desire in an audience and then fulfills that desire by describing the interaction among agent, scene, act, purpose, and agency. TERM 75 Narrative Fidelity DEFINITION 75 Refers to how accurately a narrative represents accepted fact: TERM 76 Narrative Probability DEFINITION 76 Refers to the coherence of the narrative as a story apart from actual facts: TERM 77 Pathos DEFINITION 77 Refers to the use of emotional appeals to persuade an audience by putting them in a certain frame of mind that makes them more willing to act in one way instead of another: TERM 78 Pathos DEFINITION 78 Showing and not simply Telling: TERM 79 Pathos DEFINITION 79 Effective ___________ calls emotions forward without needing to name them. TERM 80 relational affairs DEFINITION 80 In the case of Pathos, emotions are _______________________ that deal with things in our environment. TERM 81 Utopia DEFINITION 81 Use the power of an ideal to reveal the limitations of ones actual situation and inspire hope that future perfect events will occur. TERM 82 Wasteland DEFINITION 82 Portrays a horrific event that repels an audience from current and future social conditions. TERM 83 Event Orientated DEFINITION 83 Orientation of Utopoia/Wasteland: TERM 84 Action Orientated DEFINITION 84 Orientation of Virtue/Vice: TERM 85 People Orientated DEFINITION 85 Orientation of Saint/Sinner: