Rhetorical Situation
The S in SOAPSTone stands for...
What is SPEAKER?
Based on how the text makes the audience feel.
What is PATHOS?
The rhetorical devices used in this song.
What is SIMILE ("lonely like a highway")?
The O in SOAPSTone stands for...
What is OCCASION?
Based on facts and evidence.
What is LOGOS?
The rhetorical device used in this song.
What is METAPHOR ("life is a highway")?
Three suggestions for the author's purpose (represented by the acronym PIE).
What is persuade, inform, and entertain?
The definition of ethos.
What is ETHICS and CREDIBILITY / Is the speaker reliable?
Two rhetorical devices used the following song.
What is SIMILE ("like a dog") and ALLITERATION ("deathless death" and "Good God")?
Two important questions to ask when determing the A in SOAPSTone.
Who is the intended audience?
Who was the immediate audience?
Who else received the message?
Who is still receiving the message today?
The rhetorical device used in the following song.
What is PARALLEL STRUCTURE ("aint no ... enough")?
The tone of the following excerpt from Lou Gehrig's Farwell to Baseball Speech:
"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans."
What is grateful?
The rhetorical appeal present in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PplMjgh_QlM&list=PLCDxL3dzT6Eb7Gmqz_xjJHSP7JgLXO5KV&index=2
What is LOGOS?
Three examples of rhetorical devices in the following song.
What is ANAPHORA ("one day" and "glory")
PARALLEL STRUCTURE ("...in us")
ALLITERATION ("hands to the heavens" / "become blessings" / "justice is juxtaposition")
ALLUSION ("Rosa sat on the bus" / "walked through Ferguson")
METAPHOR ("moutain top")?
ASSONANCE ("women and men become legends" / "Freedom is like religion to us, Justice is juxtapositionin' us, for all just ain't specific enough")