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1. The Ancient Greeks taught and learned through speaking. Which of the following phrases best
characterizes this feature of Ancient Greek life?
A. Audible culture
2. The belief that nothing exists outside the human senses and those senses are always fallible
and partial was taken up by which of the following groups in Ancient Greece?
D. The Logicians
3. Aristotle referred to persuasive appeals that establish a speaker’s credibility by which of the
following names?
A. Logos
4. 15th century thinker Peter Ramus divided the Roman philosopher Cicero’s five cannons of
rhetoric into two distinct disciplines. Which of the following represents those two disciplines?
A. Rhetoric and Pedagogy
5. Which of the following answers includes all three original parts of Shannon and Weaver’s
model of communication?
6. Efforts to understand communication as people’s collaborative sense-making about the world
around them best describes which of the perspectives on communication research?
7. Attempts to correctly discern inequities in the power relationships within and across cultures
best describes which of the following perspectives on communication research?
8. The perspective on communication research that is vulnerable and willing to question itself
and willing to accept multiple, sometime conflicting, truths is represented by which of the
following terms?
9. Your goal, argument or message and the people you are trying to reach in a public speaking
context are represented which of the two following terms?
10. Once you have chosen a speech topic the next step involves creating an overarching claim for
your speech. Which of the following terms is a name for the overarching claim?
A. Voice
11. ___________ were the first public speaking teachers.
A. Aristotelians
12. Roman philosopher Cicero identified the 5 Canons of Rhetoric. The presentation of the
message is known as
A. Style
13. Roman philosopher Cicero identified the 5 Canons of Rhetoric. The mode or genre of a
message is known as
14. Roman philosopher Cicero identified the 5 Canons of Rheotric. The presentation of a
message is known as
A. Style
15. Communication between two or more people who are interdependent is known as
A. Intrapersonal
16. __________ refers to the way we, as Subjects, create meaning together in interaction.
A. Interdependent
17. Your authors’ explain Dwight Conquergood’s work represents the following era in
communication research
18. According to your textbook, in telling the story of communication studies, many overlook the
study of ________
19. The means of sharing with your audience what it is you hope to accomplish in your speech is
known as
20. According to your textbook, when selecting a topic, the following two things should be
considered
21. Ethos, pathos, and logos are considered types of _______________
A. Invention strategies
22. During the move to science, researchers such as, ___________, began to open up the field of
study for communication studies.
A. Weaver
23. This area of research helped to re-establish communication studies as a legitimate area of
intellectual inquiry
A. Elocution
24. This theory argues that any “objective’ fact we may think we have is rally a subjective
construct
25. Paul was delivering his advocacy speech to his classmates. He chose to and use Toulmin’s
Model to create integrity in his reasoning. Applying a pattern of reasoning is also known as an/a
26. Communication is a relatively new area of academic study.
27. The splitting of the 5 Canons of Rhetoric showed the equal importance of delivery and
content in speech-making.
28. Appealing to needs is a type of emotional proof.
29. According to social constructionism, both the speaker and the audience make meaning of
stories as they are being told.
30. The form of proof that comes from the credibility of the speaker is called pathos.
31. Sophists believed in one ultimate unquestionable “Capital T” Truth.
32. Aristotle was considered an authority on rhetoric.
33. Establishing a speaker’s credibility with listeners is also known as pathos.
Type: E
34. The book discusses the 5 Cannons of Rhetoric. List and define each cannon. Explain the
importance of the 5 cannons for public speaking.
Type: E
35. Ethos, pathos, and logos are appeals one can use to enhance a persuasive message to your
audience. Define each appeal and provide a concrete example of how you might use each in a
persuasive speech focused on convincing your audience to stop drunk driving.
Type: E
36. The social construction theory emerged in the field of communications studies in the late
1960s. Explain what the theory purports. Begin by explaining the theory, how it emerged, and its
impact on communication studies research.=. Next, discuss how it changed the field of
communication as we know it today.
