___________ listening helps us to check understanding and let the speaker know that we acknowledge and accept his or her feelings

Classical rhetoricians called the process of developing an orderly speech

a. invention. b. disposition. c. denotation. d. connotation.

Following the 1915 release of The Birth of a Nation, ________

A) the Ku Klux Klan organization, whose numbers had been dwindling for more than a decade, had a major revival B) the NAACP embraced the film for its progressive portrait of life in the South after the Civil War C) African American actors found more parts in Hollywood studio films D) all of these