SOAPSTONE
Appeals
Vocabulary
Tone
Grab Bag
100
What SOAPSTone stands for...
What is speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject and tone.
100
An emotional appeal
What is pathos?
100
Extreme greed
What is avarice?
100
Attitude towards the audience: "No, you cannot come with us. You’re only a kid."
What is down or condescending?
100
To evaluate a poem you must first determine...
What is criteria?
200
What was the OCCASION for MLK's "I Have a Dream Speech"?
What is civil rights movement and protest at DC monument.
200
An appeal to reasoning or logic.
What is logos?
200
parody or spoof
What is burlesque?
200
What is the tone? "I can’t believe that my buddy was flirting with my girlfriend, when he knew she and I had been dating for six months!"
What is indignant?
200
rude, not showing proper respect
What is impertinent?
300
What was the PURPOSE of Fredrick Douglass' narrative?
What is to end slavery through describing its horror.
300
An appeal to credibility
What is ethos?
300
shy or timid
What is diffident?
300
What is the tone? "He paced back and forth with madness as he furiously fidgeted with his hands, trying to find a solution to an irritating situation.
What is anger?
300
timeliness of an argument
What is kairos?
400
Questions you must ask yourself in any rhetorical situation
What are CONSTRAINTS?
400
This is an example of which appeal: "“Our expertise in roofing contracting is evidenced not only by our 100 years in the business and our staff of qualified technicians, but in the decades of satisfied customers who have come to expect nothing but the best.”
What is ethos?
400
bland
What is insipid?
400
What is the tone? "Air rushed by his face as he pranced through the meadow without a care in the world."
What is carefree?
400
Laws that enforced segregation of the races
What are "Jim Crow Laws"
500
What is the SUBJECT of Olaudah Equiano's narrative?
What is trip across the Atlantic on a slave ship?
500
What appeal is this? All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
What is logos?
500
detached, impersonal, neutral
What is objective?
500
What is the attitude towards the audience? "I’m not sure if my idea will work – it seems like it might fall apart if the slightest thing goes wrong – I just don’t know!
What is nervous?
500
This is an example of which appeal? "“He had meant the best in the world, and been treated like a dog—like a very dog. She would be sorry someday—maybe when it was too late. Ah, if he could only die TEMPORARILY!”
What is pathos?