Understanding Rhetoric by Elizabeth Losh

Read attached pdf introduction and section one and answe the quiz questions

Understanding Rhetoric Quiz

Open Book Reading Quiz - Introduction

For our next class,you've been assigned the Introduction section in the graphic novel "Understanding Rhetoric".

Now consider these related questions and provide a response to each

1. Writing is simple, you just have to decide what you want to say and say it.

U True

0 False

2. College writing is mostly the same, and is guided by the same universal rules regardless of the course.

U    True

0 False

3. What you write should be influenced first and foremost by

U   the mood you are in when you start writing.

0   the subject about which you are writing.

Q    your understanding of your audience's expectations.

Q    the length of the writingyou must do.

0   the format of the writing as a final product .

 4. Each writingsituation is mostly the same as the next one.

0 True

_Q_ False

2. Plato and Aristotle, the ancient Greek thinkers, were friends who agreed on the purpose and effects of rhetoric.

()    True

0  False 

3, Accordingto the text, we study rhetoric and learn about its concepts

()      to understand other people's arguments.

0   find ways to win arguments so our ideas are considered best.

0   to learn the true meaningof people's social profiles.

0   get better grades on exams.

4.  How might Kairos apply to the way we think about sendinge-mails or texts?

Owords 15 min/ 50 max Must use at least 15 words

5.  Buildings and public works can be be considered rhetorical acts and spaces.

U True

0  False

6. Nowadays politicians, CEOs, and other public personae use technology and don't bother with rhetoric any longer.

U  True

0  False

7. Rhetoric and rhetorical analysis are useful primarily when analyzingwritingfound in essays and articles.

()    True

Q   False

8. The tiny characters on the bottom of pages 60 and 61are analyzing what component of the texts shown?

The component is           type your answer

10. In this Introduction Chapter,the authors tell a story about an ancient instructor's exhortation that his students should NEVER used gold paint, and explain why he argued against the practice. Can you think of some writing equivalents to "usinggold paint". Below,name a few writing habits or quirks that we have might be best avoided for the same reasons that Leon Battista Alberti suggested avoiding gold paint?