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Question 1 - 10
• What is Rhetorical Situation?
Answer 1 – 10
• -to refer to any set of circumstances that
involves at least one person using some sort
of communication to modify the perspective
of at least one other person.
Question 1 - 20
• How are rhetorical Situations and analysis
used with regards to the audience?
Answer 1 – 20
• Rhetorical situations and analysis are used to
connect with the audience specfically when
writing.
Question 1 - 30
• What is one of the more important things
writing teachers can do for their students ?
Answer 1 – 30
• Teaching writing students to examine
rhetorical situations as sets of interacting
influences from which rhetoric arises, and
which rhetoric, in turn influences, is therefore
one of the more important things writing
teachers can do.
Question 1 - 40
• Who defines a rhetorical situation as, “the
context in which speakers or writers create
rhetorical discourse.”
Answer 1 – 40
• Lloyd Blitzer
Question 1 - 50
• True or False
• A rhetorical situation is a situation where a
speaker or writer sees a need to change reality
and sees that the change may be effected
through rhetorical discourse.
Answer 1 – 50
• TRUE.
Question 2 - 10
• What is exigence?
Answer 2 – 10
• Exigence is “an imperfection marked by
urgency; it is a defect, an obstacle, something
waiting to be done, a thing which is other than
it should be”
Question 2 - 20
• What is rhetorical exigence?
Answer 2 – 20
• A rhetorical exigence is some kind of need or
problem that can be addressed and solved
through rhetorical discourse.
Question 2 - 30
• Define discourse?
Answer 2 – 30
• Discourse by definition is communication of
thought by words and talking (speech).
Question 2 - 40
• Define Kairos
Answer 2 – 40
• “the right or opportune time to speak or
write”
Question 2 - 50
• True or False
• Is everything Discourse?
Answer 2 – 50
• True.
Question 3 - 10
• Who is a rhetor?
Answer 3 – 10
• The people who generate discourse
Question 3 - 20
• True or False
• Rhetors can’t play several roles at once, they
must balance one role and tune out all other
roles.
Answer 3 – 20
• False
• Rhetors may play several roles at once, and
even when they try to play just one role, their
audience may be aware of their other roles.
Question 3 - 30
• True or False
• Rhetors need to consider who they are in a
particular situation and be aware that their
identity may vary from situation to situation.
Answer 3 – 30
• Duh! True. 
Question 3 - 40
• True or False
• Are the roles of rhetor and audience are
dynamic not interdependent.
Answer 3 – 40
• False
• Like the other constituents of rhetorical
situations, the roles of rhetor and audience
are dynamic and interdependent.
Question 3 - 50
• Did discourse have a beginning?
Answer 3 – 50
• Yes. Explain this…
Question 4 - 10
Who is the intended audience of this article?
Question 4 - 20
• Why is knowing the indendend audience
important?
Answer 4 – 20
• Writers will have a stronger basis for making
composing decisions and are better able, as
readers, to understand the decisions other
writers have made.
Question 4 - 30
• True or False
• The readers are urged instead of asking Who
is the audience? They should ask how a
discourse defines and creates contexts for
readers.
Answer 4 – 30
• True
Question 4 - 40
• Will a rhetor’s ethos be the same for all
audiences?
Answer 4 – 40
• No. A rhetor’s ethos will not be the same for
all audiences. It will depend on what they
know and think of the rhetor’s past actions.
Question 4 - 50
• True of False
• Should rhetorical situations be clear to your
already?
Answer 4 – 50
• The idea of rhetorical situations might not be
completely clear to your right away but you
will get a handle on it. 
Question 5 - 10
• True or False
• Constraints are the easiest of the rhetorical
components to define.
Answer 5 – 10
• False. Constraints are the hardest of the
rhetorical situation to define because they can
include so many different things.
Question 5 - 20
• Do persons, events, and objects have the
power to constrain a situation?
Answer 5 – 20
• Yes. All the things listed have the power to
constrain since they are part of the situation.
Question 5 - 30
• How does Grant-Davie define constraints?
Answer 5 – 30
• He defines it as, “all factors in the situation,
aside from the rhetor and the audience, that
may lead the audience to be either more or
less sympathetic to the discourse, and that
may therefore influence the rhetor’s response
to the situation
Question 5 - 40
• Can a rhetor be constrained within the
rhetorical situation at any given point during
the composing process?
Answer 5 – 40
• Yes. A rhetor continues to define, shape,
reconsider, and respond to the rhetorical
situation throughout the composing process,
and at any given point during this process they
may be highly constrained by the emerging
discourse.
Question 5 - 50
• True or False
• precedents always create constraints?
Answer 5 – 50
• True.