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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Pentad"”.
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The effects of training with Burke's dramatistic pentad on the coherence and certain cohesive characteristics of the compositions of basic writers
… heuristic procedure, Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad) and judgments of writing quality indicated by measures of coherence and certain cohesive characteristics of their texts. A second purpose was to determine the effects of using this heuristic on students' attitudes toward writing and …
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Gender, economic agency, and social class: A rhetorical analysis of Pearl Buck's The House of Earth Trilogy through the dramatistic pentad of Kenneth Burke
… Burke’s rhetorical theory of the dramatistic pentad, along with his theories of identification, mystery, hierarchy, and perfection, are applied to The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided to examine Buck’s rhetorical practices. This study examines the three novels of The House of Earth …
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Burke, Rhetoric and The Doctor: A Rhetorical Analysis of Doctor Who
… the representative anecdote and the dramatistic pentad. The analysis with identification theory exemplifies the show’s ability to create identification with the audience that, in turn, drives the audience to watch. While the identification connects the audience to the show, the pentad explains …
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Intra-seasonal convection dynamics over Southwest and Northeast Tanzania : an observational study
… are examined using December, 1979 to May, 1994 pentad (5-day mean) Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) as an indicator of convective cloud distribution. Area-averaged OLR indices are derived for the two areas. Time series of OLR indices for MAM and DJF indicate large quasi-periodic OLR …
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People Like Me : Analyzing Universal Themes of the Holocaust Through a Culture-Specific Lens
… of renewed evaluation. Burke's dramatistic pentad provides a valuable tool with which a scholar can evaluate the rhetoric at Holocaust memorials. The pentad preserves unique facets of the communication acts, enabling a rhetor to identify differences between the memorials, while providing a …
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Dramatism, Feminine Style and Women's Weblogs: Women Speaking in the E-Public
… and critique three women's political blogs. The pentad highlighted an argument derived from each blogger's master narrative, while feminine style analysis revealed subtle differences among the women's persuasive tactics.
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Planting the Seeds of Surreality, Cultivating the Dynamism of a Nation: Winston Miranda and the Rhetoric of Resilience in Post-Revolutionary Nicaraguan Art
… to the present day). Henceforth, my thesis is a pentadic criticism of the post-revolutionary components of Mirandas surrealist oil paintings. By aggregating the literal and latent content of Miranda's artworks as a collective drama and performance, I was able to locate and extract key act, scene, …
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On the Death of My Sister: A Crystallized Account of Family Grief and Bereavement
… of a grieving Evangelical family and Burke's Pentad are placed in dialogue with each other as this thesis culls out the multiple truths that are present in the complex beauties of grief. Finally, the thesis puts a unique perspective on the mixing of methods in the author's first person …
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The Laurence-Moon-Biedl Syndrome
… proposed by Solis-Cohen & Weiss (1), of the pentad of obesity, hypogenitalism, retinitis pigmentosa, mental retardation and polydactylism. It appears rather that this syndrome owes its distinction to the peculiar association of certain familially occurring defects in a variable number of body …
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A Burkeian analysis of selected speeches of Bella Abzug
… her desired ends; (3) to apply Burke’s dramatic Pentad (Act, Scene, Agent, Agency and Purpose) to selected speeches of Bella Abzug; (4) to examine whether or not her strategies change depending on the topic of her address and the socio-psychological stratification of her audiences; (5) to …
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Heritage tourism as secular pilgrimage
… as a social drama, using Kenneth Burke's Pentad as an analytical tool.
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A Comparative Pentadic Analysis of Mediated Presidential Discourse During 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina
… disasters ever." Utilizing Kenneth Burke's pentad, this study analyzes the president's rhetorical response and the primetime network news coverage following each crisis in an attempt to determine how President Bush could fare so well in one instance, consoling and leading the American …
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Women's Work: Stitching New Identity Narratives in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings
… theory, using Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic pentad to analyze the narratives presented in a selection of textile pieces created by women in Chile, South Africa, and Northern Ireland. I situate this project within literature pertaining to feminist approaches to rhetoric, discussions of …
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James and Jude: a Rhetorical Dramatistic and Metaphoric Analysis
… and literature review, the metaphoric and pentadic methodologies are summarized. James was examined using metaphoric methodology, which revealed the letter's thematic elements more clearly than does biblical scholarship's conventional topical treatment. Key portions of the artifact …
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Tailored Chain Sequences of Brominated Syndiotactic Polystyrene Copolymers via Post-Polymerization Functionalization in the Heterogeneous Gel State
… of a unique sequence of five monomers (i.e., a pentad) along the copolymer chain (e.g., ssssb where s = styrene and b = brominated styrene). Our comonomer sequencing method demonstrated that the Blocky and Powder copolymers have block-like character. Remarkably, the Blocky copolymers exhibit …
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Setting Free the Birds : Heuristic Approaches to the Teaching of Creative Writing at the College Level
… the tagmemic invention matrix and Burke's pentad, were specifically adapted for and presented to beginning creative writing students for use in their work, along with free writing as a mode of transcription. Followup questionnaires and individual interviews were used to determine the …
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Towards public professionalism: A pentadic intervention in debate between the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
… I suggest educators employ Kenneth Burke's pentad to sponsor public inquiry into the standards. When the CCSI claims its standards will ensure that all students "demonstrate independence as readers, writers, speakers, and listeners," I suggest educators ask: in what situations do students …
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Contraceptive Controversy in the Affordable Care Act: Sandra Fluke's Testimony and Rush Limbaugh's Response
… to elucidate the research questions that the pentad was used to answer. The specific ratio utilized was an agent/agency ratio and that ratio helps explain the success of Fluke's testimony because of Limbaugh's responses. Limbaugh's response to Fluke was not received well by the public and …
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