SOAPSTone
Rhetorical Appeals
Satire
Text Structure
Potpurri
100
This aspect of the mnemonic SOAPSTone relates to the event or context in which the speaker is sharing their thoughts. It is not to be confused with the reason the speech was given.
What is the occasion?
100
This rhetorical appeal is an appeal to emotions. It "gets you in the feels."
What is pathos?
100
This element of satire is what makes you laugh.
What is humor?
100
This text structure is when a picture is painted with words, giving details about what makes up something.
What is descriptive?
100
Senator Joseph McCarthy wanting to encourage people to scrutinize the behavior of individuals in the government and their communities is this aspect of SOAPSTone.
What is purpose?
200
This aspect of SOAPSTone relates to word choice, connotation, and the author's use of figurative and descriptive language.
What is tone?
200
This rhetorical appeal is an appeal to logic, or what just makes sense.
What is logos?
200
This element of satire is over the top and hyperbolic.
What is exaggeration?
200
This text structure looks at two events, people, or items and says how they are alike or different.
What is compare and contrast?
200
This type of rhetorical appeal is used in the following picture:
What is ethos?
300
For Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, this aspect of SOAPSTone included abolitionists like Frederick Douglass--and even John Wilkes Booth!
What is the audience?
300
This rhetorical appeal is an appeal to ethics. In other words, it appeals to a sense of authority.
What is ethos?
300
This element of satire is when the opposite of what you expect is presented.
What is irony?
300
This is when something is described or listed in order or steps or chronological order.
What is sequence?
300
In "Speech to the Virginia Convention" this aspect of SOAPSTone was the British behavior toward the colonists that led to the Revolutionary War.
What is the subject?
400
For the "Speech to the Virginia Convention" the speaker that delivered it was this man.
Who is Patrick Henry?
400
This rhetorical appeal is used in this video.
What is pathos?
400
This element of satire is when something is strange and out-of-the ordinary.
What is absurdity?
400
This is when a text explain why something happened or when something leads to a consequence.
What is cause/effect?
400
This type of text structure is found in the following passage:
"Fireworks are beautiful; but as with many beautiful things, they are also dangerous. Misusing fireworks can result in property damage, injury, and even the loss of life. Such accidents usually happen for one of two reasons. The operators may be using poorly manufactured products, such as fireworks with fuses that burn too quickly. A defective firework can cause even the most skilled operator to have an accident. Other times, however, it is the operator who is at fault. The operator may be unskilled or distracted and make a mistake, such as setting up an explosion sequence improperly or not accounting for conditions in the environment, like soundproof foaming. For these reasons even the most beautiful fireworks display can turn really ugly really quickly."
What is problem and solution?
500
In Senator Joseph McCarthy's speech "Enemies from Within" this element of SOAPSTone relates to the fact that McCarthy thought that there were Communists infiltrating various aspects of the U.S. government.
What is the purpose?
500
This rhetorical appeal is contained in this picure. (Look at the words!)
What is logos?
500
This element of satire is contained in the following quote from "The Lowest Animal":
"Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately."
What is absurdity?
500
This is when there is an issue detailed and there is a way of addressing it related.
What is problem and solution?
500
This element of satire is found in the following quote:
"'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'
'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence.
'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last."
What is irony or absurdity?