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Agent: Rhetoric (Quiz 2)
The Agent in Rhetoric
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Communication
Undergraduate 2
02/06/2010

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A constant instigator of social action.
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Rhetor
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A person whose actions cause others to think and feel in new and different ways.
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Insitagator
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The effects of a rhetor's discourse are determined by how they impact the behaviors of other people with respect to some public issue.
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Social action
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T/F: To have ethos, one has to possess three things: virtue, practical wisdom, and good will.
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True
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What is determined by the relationship one has to an audience?
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Ethos
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How a rhetor constructs and presents and image of himself or herself within a particular rhetorical text.
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Persona
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Goals or purposes that require the agency of others to bring into being.
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Interests
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A goal or purpose that requires support from a public audience and cooperation by administrative officials.
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Rhetorical interest
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Interests which are clearly present in a rhetor's discourse.
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Explicit interests
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Interests which the rhetor possesses but which he or she does not make public.
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Hidden interests
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Hidden interests that only benefits the rhetor, and not the public.
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Propaganda
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Obstacles that stand between us and the attainment of our interests.
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Constrants
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Obstacles that must be overcome in order to facilitate both the persuasive and practical effects desired by the rhetor.
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Rhetorical constraints
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Beliefs, attitudes, and values, of an audience that must be changed if persuasion is to occur.
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Internal constraints
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Objects, processes, and events that may physically obstruct any productive action even if persuasion of an audience has occurred.
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External constraints
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