SOAPS
What does SOAPS stand for?
Speaker
Occasion
Audience
Purpose
Subject
What are the three rhetorical appeals?
ethos, pathos, logos
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successive clause would be-
Anaphora
Comparing two concepts and revealing what is alike about them is called-
Analogy
Telling a story that recounts an event. There is a beginning, a middle, and an end. There’s a point to it- a reason for recounting the event becomes clear to the reader.
Narration
Where in the rhetorical analysis essay should you mention SOAPS?
The introduction
T/F: Rhetorical appeals should be used as subpoints in your RA essay thesis statements
FALSE!
“In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course.” (hint: using a part of a community to represent the whole)
Synedoche
Using the examples “fair is foul and foul is fair” explains that someone beautiful on the outside could be “foul” on the inside and vice versa. This quote reveals that looks can be deceiving. What style element does this example best relate to?
Paradox
Analyzes a process. Explain how to do something or how something happens. Process can have one of two purposes. It can either give instructions or inform the reader about how something is done. It is important to understand that a clear process presentation must be in chronological order.
Process analysis
Before writing/after reading the text
Which rhetorical appeal:
“Since 1976, judges in Alabama have overridden jury sentencing verdicts in capital cases 111 times. In 91 percent of these cases, judges replaced life verdicts from juries with death sentences.”
Logos
An opposition or contrast in ideas by parallelism of words or phrases that are opposite. For example, “we shall support any friend, oppose any foe…”
Antithesis
Animal Farm would be an example of this. The animals and the farmer stand for a capitalist or socialist society.
Allegory
When you convince others through reasoning where you take a position on an issue and defend it.
Argumentation
What is a term often used in likeness with occasion?
(hint: it's one of the MCQ terms)
Exigence
In Just Mercy, Stevenson consistently references hope for Walter McMillian's case. What rhetorical appeal would this most relate to?
Pathos
“Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed ” (King). (hint: he is calling you to action)
Saying “soda” in one state and referring to it as “pop” in another state would be best described as a(n)-
Colloquialism
Analyze why something happens and describe the consequences of a string of events.
Casual Analysis
What are the two parts to purpose?
P1- What the audience should think/feel during the speech/text
P2- What should the audience do/feel afterwards?
In the introduction chapters of Just Mercy, Stevenson mentions his Harvard Law degree and his foundation, The Equal Justice Initiative. What rhetorical appeal is he developing?
Ethos
“The nations of Asia and Africa are moving at jet-like speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.” (hint: comparing the clear differences between the nations)
Juxtaposition
Repetition of many words in a sequence or series would be a(n)-
Polysyndeton
When you read the passage, gather what it is, and use the knowledge that you know about reading and writing to help assist you in answering the questions this is called-
Stimulus text