The Rhetorical Triangle
Person or group who creates a text
Who is the speaker?
Appeal to emotions to motivate an audience
An explicit comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
A set of rules that dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought.
What is syntax?
The 'P' in SOAPSTone.
What is the purpose?
Listener, viewer, or reader of a text or performance.
What is the audience?
What is logos?
A short and interesting story proposed to support and demonstrate a point.
What is an anecdote?
A word or group of words repeated at the beginning of two or more successive clauses or sentences.
What is an anaphora?
The 'A' in SOAPSTone.
What is the audience?
The goal that the speaker wants to achieve in his or her text or performance.
What is the purpose?
An appeal that demonstrates the speaker's credibility and trustworthiness to speak about a given topic.
What is ethos?
What is alliteration?
The usage of repeating words and forms to give pattern and rhythm to a passage in literature.
What is a parallelism?
The topic of a text; the first 'S' in SOAPSTone.
What is the subject?
If you understand your audience you will know how to address their ______.
What are counterclaims?
The spread of ideas and (dis)information to further a cause.
What is propaganda?
A kind of extended metaphor or long simile in which an explicit comparison is made between two things to further an argument.
What is an analogy?
The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas put together in a sentence.
What is an antithesis?
The time and place a speech is given or a text is written; the 'O' in SOAPSTone.
What is the occasion?
the time, place, and environment surrounding a moment of communication
What is a context?
The acknowledgment of an opposing argument being reasonable, usually followed by a refutation.
What is a concession?
What is an allusion?
Inverted parallelism
The attitude of the speaker towards the subject.
What is tone?