Introduction to Narrative Persuasion and Communication Artifacts

Vocabulary flashcards covering direct and indirect communication, narrative persuasion theories, literary examples, and rhetorical principles based on the lecture.

Narrative Transportation Theory

A theory about being transported into a fictional world in one's mind in order to be persuaded.

Good Samaritan

A story used by Jesus where a Samaritan helps a beaten individual after others of the same ethnic group do not, illustrating that character and actions matter.

Nathan the Prophet

An Old Testament prophet who indirectly confronted King David about his actions by telling a story about a rich man stealing a poor man's single beloved lamb.

Flannery O'Connor

A Catholic writer known for southern Gothic and grotesque fiction who used narrative to convey her purpose while making direct arguments in her commentary.

CS Lewis

An author who made direct arguments in Mere Christianity, but used indirect narrative persuasion in The Screwtape Letters, Chronicles of Narnia, and the Space Trilogy.

Animal Farm

A novel by George Orwell that serves as a critique of communism, featuring pigs using doublespeak like 'some are more equal than others.'

Nineteen Eighty-Four

A novel by George Orwell that critiques an all-seeing dictatorship where dissent and freedom of speech are forbidden.

Propaganda

A term originally associated with Jesuits propagating the faith, which developed negative connotations over time due to mass media, logical fallacies, and exaggeration.

Professional Communication

The strategic exchange of information in workplace and civic settings, shaped for a specific audience, purpose, and context.

Rhetoric

Defined by Aristotle as observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Ethos

A rhetorical concept defined by Aristotle referring to a communicator's character and credibility.

Pathos

A rhetorical concept defined by Aristotle referring to emotion and values in the context of effective communication.

Marshall McCullough

The individual cited for writing that 'the medium is the message' in Understanding Media.

Maya Angelou

The author who wrote that words mean more than what is set out on paper, taking voice and feeding a deeper meaning.

Kenneth Berg

The rhetorician who wrote in The Rhetoric of Motives that wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric.

Cicero

The historical figure who claimed in day in Ventione that eloquence without wisdom is often most mischievous and never advantageous.

Artifact

Any concrete symbolic product of information that can be examined.