Elements of Rhetorical Analysis
What does S.O.A.P.S. stand for?
What is Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker?
The person who is making an argument
Who is the author or speaker?
The purpose that tells the audience about key facts, figures, and statistics, as well as essential people, places, events, and/or feelings.
What is to inform?
Most authors use specific language, context, and strategies because they are directing it towards a specific...
What is audience?
The attitude of the author towards the audience or subject
What is the tone?
This purpose is to amuse readers. It may have hidden meanings and a higher purpose to persuade; however, the main idea is to delight the audience.
What is to entertain?
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
What is syntax?
This rhetorical device is the word choice of the speaker or author.
What is diction?
A point of view that uses words such as I, we, our or us.
What is first person point of view?
This purpose is to attempt to convince the audience to do something or think a particular way.
What is to persuade?
What is the occasion of a text?
What is the background information around the text? What prompted the author/speaker to write the text?
First person, third person (limited or omniscient) and second person are all examples of...
What is point of view?
The writer's predetermined opinions that may influence the delivery of their argument.
What is bias?
How many sentences of analyses should you write in a body paragraph?
What are two sentences?
Name all of the rhetorical devices we studied this semester.
What are tone, diction, figurative language, imagery, syntax, point of view, and organization
A point of view where the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters
What is third person omniscient?
Name the 5 types of Purposes.
What is to persuade, inform, explain, entertain, and describe?
What is the most important element in S.O.A.P.S.?
What is the purpose?