Consider the following excerpt from a speech that President Barack Obama gave:
Obama:Y'all know about okey-doke, right? [Pause]
Crowd: Yeahhh! Yes! [Laughter]
Obama: It's the same old stuff!
Crowd: Yeahhh!
This illustrates:
a. |
a speech style that constructs a strong difference between speaker and audience |
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b. |
use of conscious, prescriptive rules |
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c. |
a "call and response" style that enables interaction and audience participation |
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d. |
use of parallelism for rhetorical effect |
the answer is
c. |
a "call and response" style that enables interaction and audience participation |
Call and response is when someone shouts something and gets a response back.In African cultures, call-and-response is a widespread pattern of democratic participation—in public gatherings, in the discussion of civic affairs, in religious rituals, as well as in vocal format became a diasporic tradition, and it was part of Africans and African Americans creating a new, unique tradition in the United States.
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