QUESTIONS TO SHARPEN YOUR FOCUS

1		Burke says that without identification, there is no persuasion. A number of the theories already covered deal with ideas or principles akin to identification. Can you name five?
2		Burke encourages the rhetorical critic to discover communicators' motives by analyzing the god terms and devil terms they use. What are Burke's god terms and devil terms?
3		Apply the dramatistic pentad to the nonverbal rhetoric of a Friday night party on campus. Which of the five elements of the pentad would you stress to capture the meaning of that human drama?
4		Burke claims that all rhetoric ultimately serves to expiate guilt through victimage. If he's right, is it the guilt of the speaker, the listener, or the victim that is being purged?