Organization
Which organization does this text follow?
“Our father accompanied us to New York, where we met our fellow campers for the charter flight to Athens. There were hundreds of them, each one confident and celebratory. They tossed their complimentary Aegean Airlines tote bags across the room, shouting and jostling one another.” -Sedaris, I Like Guys
A: Narration
Which scheme is prominent in this sentence?
“I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language—the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.” -Tan (Mother Tongue)
A: Parallelism (of phrases)
This element of the SOAPS framework refers to who is delivering the message, including their credibility, background, and perspective.
What is the "Speaker"?
What is one of the two primary ways a writer appeals to a reader’s ethos?
What is demonstrating Authority? Or What is demonstrating Shared Values?
In a passage, what is the difference between the tone and the mood?
A: The tone being the author's feelings on the matter, while the mood being what the reader is feeling
Which organization does this text follow?
“The number of teens who get together with their friends nearly every day dropped by more than 40 percent from 2000 to 2015” -Twenge, Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation?
A: Contrast (Compare and Contrast)
Which trope is prominent in this sentence?
“Upon confiscating my nephew’s cell phone one Friday night, she asked him on Saturday morning, ‘What plans do you have with your friends today?’ ‘None,’ he responded. ‘You took away my phone.’” -Goldsmith, Go ahead: Waste time on the Internet
A: Irony
In this part of the SOAPS framework, you identify the group or individual the message is intended for. It helps to analyze what the audience values and how the message appeals to them.
What is the "Audience"?
What is the primary rhetorical value in the following quote?“But we feel the loss, and we’re thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace.” -Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster
What is Pathos?
What tone is being displayed in the following quote? “"When I look at the city’s skyline at dusk, I feel both awe and a sense of quiet sorrow. It’s beautiful, but it’s also a reminder of what has been lost."
A: What is Nostalgia?
If a text is providing imagery to a scenario, which organization is that?
A: Description
Which scheme is prominent in this sentence?
“Some of them -- so many of them -- could be saved.” -Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
A: Interruption
This component of the SOAPS framework focuses on the context or event that triggers the communication, including the time, place, and circumstances.
What is the "Occasion"?
What is the primary rhetorical value in the following quote?“What produced in others a sense of exhilaration left Jason and me with a mortifying sense of guilt. We fled the room as if, in our fumblings, we had uncapped some virus. We still might escape if we ran fast enough.” -Sedaris, I Like Guys
What is Logos?
What are the 3 points on the rhetorical triangle?
What are Speaker, Subject, and Audience.
If a text is mentioning the result of an action, which organization does that follow?
A: Cause and Effect
Which scheme is prominent in this sentence?
“We felt that to be abandoned by God was worse than to be punished by Him. Better an unjust God than an indifferent one.” -Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
A: Antithesis
In the SOAPS framework, this refers to the reason why the speaker is communicating—what they want to achieve with their message, whether it’s to persuade, inform, or entertain.
What is the "Purpose"?
Statistics and data would fall under what rhetorical value?
What is Logos?
What are the 4 steps of the Process of Analysis?
What are "observe, validate, analyze, and connect?"
If a text provides facts, specific cases, or instances to a claim, which organization does that follow?
A: Exemplification
Which trope is prominent in this text?
“We are already captive in our webs. Our slight solitudes are transected by codes, wires, and pulsations. We punch a number to check in with the answering machine, another to tape a show that we are too busy to watch. The strands of the web grow finer and finer - this is obvious.” -Birkerts, Into the Electronic Millennium
A: Metaphor? (web/strands of web metaphor)
This is the central topic or theme of the message being communicated, identified by examining what the speaker is discussing.
What is the "Subject"?
To show how language affects perception, Tan explains that her mother was treated different;ly in stores and hospitals because of her English . This supports her logical argument with what kind of reasoning?
What is cause and effect?
What is the purpose of taking AP Lang?
What is, Learning to write better?