SOAPSTone
The author's goal...what they want the audience to think, feel, or do.
What is purpose?
What is cause-and-effect?
What is short, choppy sentences?
This essay asks you to analyze the writer's rhetorical choices.
What is the rhetorical analysis essay?
When she saw the acceptance email, she jumped onto the couch laughing, crying, and yelling, ‘I actually did it!’
What is an example of an ecstatic tone?
The context, time, place, or situation that prompted the writing.
What is occasion?
This method creates a vivid picture of a person, place, or thing
What is description?
Structuring the argument around consequences and outcomes.
What is cause-and-effect reasoning?
This essay requires to put sources into conversation.
What is the synthesis essay?
After the team’s fourth straight loss, the coach dropped the clipboard onto the bench and muttered, ‘It doesn’t matter what we try anymore.’
What is an example of a defeated tone?
The problem or issue that prompts someone to speak or write.
What is exigence?
This method shows similarities and differences between things.
What is comparison and contrast?
The writer acknowledges complexity, counterarguments, or limitations before refining their own claim.
What is qualification?
This essay requires real-world knowledge as evidence.
What is the argument essay?
Even as the guards dragged him away, he shouted, ‘You can silence me, but you can’t silence the truth!’
What is an example of a defiant tone?
The more apt name for what SOAPStone represents.
What is rhetorical situation?
This method provides specific examples to illustrate a point.
What is exemplification?
Putting two unlike things next to each other is a type of this.
What is juxtaposition/contrast?
What is the minimum amount of sources needed in the synthesis essay?
The old man stared at the unopened letters from his daughter, listening to the rain tap against the window as he whispered, ‘Some things never come back.’
What is an example of a melancholic tone?
What the speaker must know about their listener in order to make effective rhetorical choices.
What is the audience's values, beliefs, and desires?
This method explains and analyses how something works or is done.
What is process analysis?
A type of reasoning in which two true claims point to to a third true claim.
What is deductive reasoning?
What is the rhetorical analysis essay?
Every time the phone buzzed, he glanced over his shoulder convinced someone was tracking his every move.
What is an example of a paranoid tone?