A college chess club has nicknamed themselves “the players” because they play chess so well, but also because they like the idea of suggestive double entendre. They have built lots of suggestive innuendo in their interactions, saying things like “I guarantee I can mate you” or “what's your favorite position,” which have meanings both for chess and for sex. According to symbolic convergence theory, when club members come up with a new way of continuing this idea, they are using ______.
A. a rhetorical vision
B. dramatizing
C. fantasy chaining
D. symbolic convergence
C. fantasy chaining
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A. go out into the audience to shake hands. B. playfully "insult" some listeners. C. deliberately make mistakes. D. pretend to have stage fright.
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