Jim knows that Wendy has great fashion sense. He wants to impress her so that she'll like him, and so he puts these two things together. One day they're having lunch together and he points out a woman across the room: "Look at how tacky that dress looks on her! No one should be seen wearing something that awful." Wendy laughed and agreed. From a communication perspective, what was Jim doing?

Jim knows that Wendy has great fashion sense. He wants to impress her so that she'll like him, and so he puts these two things together. One day they're having lunch together and he points out a woman across the room: "Look at how tacky that dress looks on her! No one should be seen wearing something that awful." Wendy laughed and agreed. From a communication perspective, what was Jim doing?




a. Using nonartistic proofs
b. Using identification by dissociation
c. Using the tacky dress as metonymy
d. Using an enthymeme so Wendy will think he's witty
e. Using a metaphor about dressing for success







Answer: B


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