Metamessage is defined as:
a. the meaning of a message that tells others how they should respond to the content of a person's communication based on his or her relationship to them.
b. a type of communication in which much of the information is conveyed in words rather than in nonverbal cues and contexts.
c. the overlap among the syntactics, pragmatics, phonetics, and language styles of a native language creating a third way of communication.
d. a verbal message often designed to camouflage a speaker's true intentions, needs, wants, and desires.

A). The meaning of a message that tells others how they should respond to the content of a person's communication based on his or her relationship to them.

Explanation:

Metamessage is usually referred to as the implied or implicit meaning displayed by a message. It is also called the inner message that can be understood only when you read between the lines. Metamessage exemplifies secondary communication as it needs to be interpreted or inferred. Thus, the meaning of such a message tells others how they should respond to the content of a person's communication based on his/her perceptions or relationship with them. Therefore, option A is the correct answer.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)