Kenneth Burke Terministic Screens Summary

In reading Kenneth Burke's essays, Terministic Screens and A Rhetoric of Motives, I gathered that terministic screens directs attention. These screens are listed as scientistic, which is attitudinal and hortatory, and dramatistic is defined as symbolic of an action like in stories, plays etc. Burke stress the fact in the distinction between the two. He also mentions that the nature of terms affects the observation, and through this observation the act of persuasion takes place. The terministic screens has to be couple with a persuasive argument allowing the terms to reflect its reality. Using terms allows the audience to have something to associate themselves with, according to Burke. He also gives the reader a few example of this--one