Annotations
True
What do the letters in SOAPSTone stand for?
Speaker
Occasion
Audience
Purpose
Subject
Tone
What is a suffix?
A group of letters that comes after a word.
Who is the protagonist of the story? (The "good guy")
Rainsford
Which rhetorical appeal is the appeal to emotion?
Pathos
What is one annotation technique we use (especially at Fordson) that can be helpful?
SOPASTone
True or False: Using SOAPSTone does not help us become better readers and writers.
False
What is a prefix?
A group of letters that comes before a word.
Who is the antagonist in the story? (The "bad guy")
General Zaroff
What do we look for when we are identifying ethos? (HINT: It is not ethics)
The author's credibility
What are some things we do when we annotate?
Highlight, underline, star, circle words we don't know
What is Subject?
A one sentence summary of the text
What does the prefix "re-" mean?
To repeat, again
What is the name of the island that the story takes place on?
Ship Trap Island
When we are identifying logos, what types of things are we looking for? (HINT: Not logic)
facts, statistics, numbers, data
What is is called when we use the text to identify a word we don't know?
context clues
What types of texts can we SOAPSTone?
Articles, short stories, poems, plays, journals
What does the suffix "-ed" mean?
The past tense of something
What is the "most dangerous game"?
Hunting humans
What are ehtos, logos, and pathos called?
The rhetorical appeals OR the rhetorical devices
What is it called when you take the text and put it in your own words?
summarizing
What is one question we have to ask ourselves when we are looking for the audience?
Who is this text intended for?
Why is it important to use/identify prefixes and suffixes?
So that we can break down words we may not know in a text.
What is Rainsford's friends name who was on the ship with him?
Whitney