SOAPSTone
This represents the "A" in SOAPSTone.
What is audience?
There are this many levels of diction.
What is 3?
Name the three rhetorical appeals.
Syntax is a set of __________ in a language.
What is rules?
This type of phrase renames the noun or pronoun it is next to in a sentence.
What is an appositive?
There are two Ss in SOAPSTone. One represents speaker. What does the other represent?
What is subject?
Diction is a style of speaking or writing determined by choice of __________ by a speaker or writer.
What are words?
Belief in fairness, revenge, love, pity, and greed are examples of __________ appeals.
What is emotional (pathos)?
Syntax affects the __________ of a piece of writing.
What is pace (pacing)?
Yoda speaks using this type of word order.
What is inverted?
SOAPSTone is known as a[n] __________ reading strategy.
What is analytical?
True or False.
Wrong word choice can easily divert readers which results in misinterpretation of the message intended to be conveyed.
What is true?
This guy created modes of persuasion also known as ethos, pathos, and logos.
Who is Aristotle?
The exclamation point, capitalization, and the dash are often used for emphasis and should be used sparingly. What is the other syntactical device that should also be used sparingly?
What is italics?
"I got my mind on my money and my money on my mind" is an example of __________.
What is antimetabole?
Understanding the __________ is important because it helps you begin to discover the purpose of the rhetoric.
What is occasion or exigence?
This level of diction is often used for an audience that is highly educated.
What is formal?
This rhetorical appeal relies on truth, not tricks.
What is logical (logos)?
Long, convoluted sentences, especially with subordinate clauses at the beginning tend to __________ the pace of a text.
What is slow?
The phrases and clauses in this type of sentence balance each other by virtue of their likeness of structure, meaning, or length (parallel structure).
What is balanced?
SOAPSTone is known as a[n] __________ device.
What is mnemonic?
__________ are usually formed around particular regions. However, they may also be used within certain groups of people.
What is dialects?
This rhetorical appeal refers to the trustworthiness of the speaker/writer.
In combination, syntax and diction help writers develop __________ and mood in a text along with evoking the interest of the readers.
What is tone?
Is the following sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Being alone can be scary unless you keep yourself busy.
What is complex?