ABSTRACT ; Answers for test .
- pirai traditions which can as rhetorical
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- methods of verbal coinmuhication intended to transmit essential
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- cultural values to the next generatibnv are as vital a part of
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- the lives of many Native Americans today as they have been for
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- centuries. Some critics feel that one essential ingredient of
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- these traditions is the performance dimension; the rhetorical
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- dichotomy of storyteller/audience cannot be repiicated by the
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- author/reader relationship. However, a new generation of
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- Native American storytellers has evolved in the recent past
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- who seek to modify this storytelling experience and present it
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- in a European literary form. N. Scott Momaday is one of this
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- new geheration, and has been considered by some to be a bridge
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- between the oral and written traditions.
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- This study proposes that there are essential elements of
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- oral traditions that can survive and even thrive in a literary
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- form. The performance dimension is only one part of the
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- whole, and oral traditions exist beyond the storytelling
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- event. Indian authors, and N. SCott Momaday in particular,
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- incorporate elements of these traditions in their works by
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- using rhetorical techniques in a uniquely Native American way.
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- Thus they use the medium of print to transmit oral values to
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- the hext generation of Native Americans and other readers who
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- spend the time to seek to understand cultures that are
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- different from their own.
Hope it helps! The answer, I think is B, If I'm incorrect let me know.
