SOAPST
It's important to consider this "A" when analyzing a text.
What is Audience?
This statement is not meant to actually be answered.
What is a rhetorical question?
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
What is antithesis?
This is the appeal to emotions.
What is pathos?
What is a metaphor?
What is Tone?
The placement of opposites side-by-side for contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
"We came, we saw, and we conquered."
What is anaphora?
Logos is the appeal to __________.
What is logic or reasoning?
"Blame is on the black star
Blame it on the falling sky,
Blame it on the satellite."
What is anaphora?
To persuade, inform, and entertain are examples of this.
What is Purpose?
A reference to a famous person, place, or thing.
What is an allusion?
"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe…"
What is asyndeton?
Saying "we" and "us" is a good way to appeal to this.
What is ethos?
"The big sycamore by the creek was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood on the little rise across the creek-now that, too, was gone."
What is epistrophe?
The 2 S's stand for these two words.
What are Speaker and Subject?
A direct comparison of two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
"We lived and laughed and loved and left."
What is polysyndeton?
Ethos corresponds to this part of the SOAPST chart.
What is Speaker?
Rhetoric is the art of _______________.
What is persuasion?
This is the broader context of the text.
What is Occasion?
This is a fancy term for "word choice."
What is diction?
"...for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live."
What is juxtaposition?
Logos corresponds to this part of the SOAPST chart.
What is Subject?
This philosopher founded the theory of rhetoric.
Who is Aristotle?