The Rhetorical Triangle
Person or group who creates a text
Who is the speaker?
Appeal to emotions to motivate an audience
What is alliteration?
An explicit comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
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 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 '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?
The addition of an adjacent, coordinate, explanatory, or descriptive element.
Ex. Ms. Gulbasar, English teacher extraordinaire, helped me get a 5 on my AP Lang test.
What is an apposition?
What is satire?
The topic of a text; the first 'S' in SOAPSTone.
What is the subject?
The character that a speaker shows to his or her audience; greek for "mask"
What is a persona?
The spread of ideas and (dis)information to further a cause.
What is propaganda?
The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas put together in a sentence.
What is an antithesis?
A rhetorical device that draws a specific conclusion, that is not always true, from something general.
What is a syllogism?
The time and place a speech is given or a text is written; the 'O' in SOAPSTone.
What is the occasion?
Inciting incident
What is exigence?
The acknowledgment of an opposing argument being reasonable, usually followed by a refutation.
What is a concession?
What is an allusion?
The presentation of ideas, characters, or places in a manner that they appeal to more than one sense at a time.
What is synesthesia?
A learning technique that aids in information retention; an example being the acronym SOAPSTone.
What is a mnemonic device?