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.

Exam 2 is a take-home exam. It has two sections: a short answer (multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank) section, and an essay section. The class-generated review questions are appended below.

Short Answer:

What are the 3 kinds of style Augustine talks about?
subdued, moderate, grand

Who wrote, “eloquence is no invention of the schools. Nature teaches everyman to be eloquent, when he is much in earnest”?
Hugh Blair

What is the name of the prose style favored by Enlightenment empiricists that focused on perspicuity and arose as an alternative to the more excessive Ciceronian prose style?
Senecan

Essay Prompts:

Describe Ramus's concept of universalization.

Discuss Whateley’s burden of proof principle as a rhetorical strategy and relate it back to Campbell's consideration of the audience/hearers of the argument.

Describe the differences between simple & mixed modes and give examples for each.

What is the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning?