SOAPSTone + Definitions
____ is the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject and the audience.
What is TONE?
Presenting logic, facts, or truth in attempt to reason with your audience.
What is Logos?
Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches
George Orwell's Animal Farm
What is ALLEGORY?
Appealing to the audience's emotions or values.
What is PATHOS?
This is 1-2 sentences that give the writer’s specific position or opinion on the topic.
What is THESIS?
Repeating words or phrases for emphasis when speaking or writing.
What is Repetition?
When John Proctor tells his wife "Were I stone I would have cracked for the shame"
What is metaphor?
"Why were so many held in thrall to McCarthy? Why was an environment that some likened to the Salem Witch Trials tolerated?"
What is rhetorical question?
When an author or speaker is trustworthy or credible.
What is ETHOS?
This part of your argument addresses the opposing viewpoints and provides evidence to prove the opponents wrong.
What is the rebuttal?
Greta Thunberg gives a speech on global climate change with the goal of persuading her audience to take action to protect the environment. After listening to her speech, several members of the audience decide to make personal changes in their lives that will help prevent further damage to the environment.
Greta Thunberg has accomplished her _____.
What is Purpose?
In this excerpt from The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln's speech about democracy, two rhetorical devices are used: "this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
What is Epiphora and Anaphora?
(all acceptable)
"The charges of witchcraft by these youngsters spread like wildfire"
What is simile?
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Make your wager. All teams may participate.
Write an example of ANALOGY.
After providing supporting evidence (examples, facts, statistics), you must always do this to help support your argument.
What is provide reasoning, explanation, analysis?
a brief reference to a popular or well-known person, place, event, pieces of literature or popular culture, usually well known to be recognized by the reader.
What is Allusion?
When an author or speaker chooses words very carefully.
What is Diction?
In Obama's speech, he references the U.S Constitution: "But we should also have confidence that kids these days, I think, have more sense than we did back then, and certainly more than our parents did or our grandparents did; and that along this long, difficult journey, we're becoming a more perfect union — not a perfect union, but a more perfect union."
What is an ALLUSION?
DAILLLLY DOUBBLLEE
MAke your wager. All teams may participate.
Write a thesis statement that addresses a counter-argument for this prompt:
Is Social Media Making Us More Narcissistic?
DAILLLY DOUBBLE
All teams may participate.
Make your wager.
Vivid descriptions with words that re-create sensory experiences for the reader.
What is IMAGERY?
"Go ahead and picture a bunny rabbit in a clamp with its eyelids held open, one eye painfully red and oozing. That's a real picture. PETA didn't have to make it up.”
What is Imagery / Pathos?
If you want to be a good member of your family, you have to think of yourself as a team player on a baseball team. Like a baseball player, sometimes you have to step up to the plate and just do your best to help everyone else. Sometimes, the entire team is relying on you to help them succeed. Even if you do not play your best, the team will still encourage you to do well.
What is an analogy?
Famous Greek philosopher that identified the three methods of persuasion: ethos, pathos, logos.
Who is Aristotle?
This part of your argument summarizes the main points and provides a call to action or a description of what could happen if the writer or speaker's argument is (or is not) implemented.
What is the conclusion?