The purpose of the exams is to ensure that students have an appropriate grasp on relevant content so that the class can be conversant in rhetoric as a subject. Also, the exam scenario may help prepare students who are going on to attempt the MA Exam. The exam has two sections: a short answer (multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank) section, and an essay section. Students will not be able to use external materials (readings, notes, etc.) for the first section. Students will be able to use external materials for the second section. Students also will have the option to use the lab computers to produce responses for the second section. The class-generated review questions are appended below. • What does Kairos mean? (the quality of time or the moment) • In which text is the following quotation: “To Spartans, for example, it is seemly that girls should exercise naked or walk around bare armed or without a tunic, but to Ionians this is shameful”?
a-Against the Sophists
b-Dissoi Logoi
c-Encomium of Helen
d-Gorgias
• Sophists believed that language was epistemic meaning: (it constituted knowledge or reality rather than just transmitted Truth discovered elsewhere)
• Name one of the reasons that Gorgias names for Helen fleeing: (fate/Gods, force, words, love)
• Plato argues that _____ exists in a fixed form, and as such is not likely to change. (Objective Truth)
• According to Plato's Socrates, what is the false art of bodily maintenance? (cosmetics)
• According to Plato's Socrates, what is the true art of bodily correction? (medicine)
• In Phaedrus Plato claims that the soul consists of three parts, which are: (that which seeks the noble, that which seeks the base, and wisdom which should govern the other two)
• Unlike the sophists, Plato saw himself as didactic not _____ using discourse to shape an audience for its own good. (manipulative)
• According to Aristotle, the syllogism is to dialectic as what is to rhetoric? (the enthymeme)
• According to Aristotle, rhetoric is the counterpart to what? (dialectic)
• What is Aristotle's view of style in rhetoric?
• True or false: As far as is known, Aristotle never wrote speeches for public delivery.
• Which of the following is NOT one of the divisions of oratory?
a-ceremonial
b-didactic
c-forensic
d-political |