Cagle

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Cagles COMM 142 Review Questions

• Prepare to write a 3-5 paragraph essay in
  response to each question.
• Each question should be looked at as a
  springboard from which you can demonstrate what
  you have learned in this course.

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What is rhetorical criticism?
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What is the essential methodology of
neo-classical or traditional criticism?
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• Explain these critical standards
• Rhetorical effect.
• Rhetorical artistry.
• Ethicality or morality.
• Fittingness or propriety.
• Rhetorical competency.
• Truth.

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What is the critical rationale for textual
criticism?
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What is cultural criticism? How is it different
from traditional criticism?
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• Explain
• The only standard of correctness that exists
  relative to rhetorical criticism is that the
  critic makes a sound case for any judgments
  rendered about the rhetorical act.

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• What did Wichelns mean?
• Literary criticism is concerned with evaluating
  the wisdom, beauty, and truth contained in great
  works of fiction, while rhetorical criticism is
  devoted to assessing the persuasive effect of
  situated oratory.

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What did Blair mean? The object which criticism
proposes is, to distinguish what is beautiful and
what is faulty in every performance from
particular instances to ascend to general
principles and so to form rules or conclusions
concerning the several kinds of beauty in works
of genius.
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• What did Parrish mean?
• The effect of a speech is difficult to assess,
  but the quality can be determined separately from
  its actual impact on an audience.

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• What did Wrage mean?
• Rhetorical criticism can make important
  contributions to social and intellectual history.

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• What did Thonssen Baird mean?
• Insightful synthesis integrates the many parts
  and makes the seemingly discrete components a
  whole piece.

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Explain this approach to criticism common
standards of accuracy, beauty, or effectiveness
are used to assess the manifest features of
messages
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Explain this approach to criticism attempt to
probe the implicit features of messages and
understand the ways in which those features
govern human experience
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In historical research, what are important tests
of evidence?
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Explain the relationship between history and
criticism in rhetorical criticism.
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In cultural criticism, what purpose does the
identification of myths, fantasy themes, and
values serve?
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How would you criticize the arguments in a speech?
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Why would a critic analyze metaphors in
understanding a speech?
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How and why would a critic look at a speakers
use of language and condensation symbols in a
speech?
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Traditional criticism is characterized by
objectivity, relying on aesthetics or
effectiveness as critical standards. Contrast
ideological criticism as a methodology.
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How should a film be criticized?
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When a critic does a rhetorical criticism, who is
the audience?