The rhetorical situation
All parts of SOAPSTone in order are:
What are Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, & Tone?
A text message between friends would be written using this type of diction.
What is colloquial/vernacular diction?
Yoda: "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
This is an example of ________.
What is anadiplosis?
A comparison of two things for the purpose of closer analysis is called _________.
What is analogy?
MLK: "if you would watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you would see them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys, if you would observe them, as they did on two occasions..."
This is an example of ________.
What is anaphora?
Today it is raining, and I got a flat tire on the way to work. Therefore, the rain caused my tire to pop.
This is an example of __________.
What is Correlation does not imply causation/post hoc ergo propter hoc?
This rhetorical appeal is describes the author's knowledgeability, credibility & personal experience.
What is ethos?
A type of diction that focuses on the sound of words, not just the meaning of words.
What is poetic diction?
Lord Byron in Don Juan: "Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure."
This is an example of __________.
What is chiasmus?
"You hit the nail on the head"
This is an example of __________.
What is idiom?
The common phrase "not bad" is an example of __________.
What is litotes?
"But mom, EVERYONE has a smartphone!"
This is an example of _____________
What is appeal to the bandwagon?
to inform, to persuade, to analyze, and to entertain are all examples of an author's ____________.
What is the author's purpose?
A set of instructions on how to set up a TV would be written using this type of diction.
What is concrete diction?
The only thing the racecar driver cared about was the track.
"The track" is an example of _________.
What is metonymy?
Note: This is not synecdoche, because "the track" is not a part of a larger whole (i.e. "his set of wheels" would be BOTH synecdoche AND metonymy).
"A picture says a thousand words"
This is an example of ________.
What is personification?
Note: I would also accept anthropomorphism.
MLK: "But for what purpose? To preserve the evil system of segregation."
This is an example of ________.
What is hypophora?
An argument against a person's moral character, rather than the person's actual arguments/beliefs.
What is ad hominem?
This method of development involves breaking down a broad idea into separate sections/parts, often using a list structure. This method is used in The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher.
What is classification?
If you went to a job convention for welders, you would hear a lot of this type of diction.
What is jargon?
Romeo: "Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, / O heavy lightness, serious vanity..."
This contains multiple examples of _________.
What is oxymoron?
"Philadelphia won the last Super Bowl"
This is an example of ________.
What is synecdoche?
Note: I would also accept metonymy.
William Shakespeare is often called "The Bard".
This is an example of ________.
What is antonomasia?
"If we legalize marijuana, then drug use will be more normalized, and pretty soon everyone will be a drug addict!"
This is an example of ___________
What is slippery slope?
The reason/prompting event that motivated the writer to create their text is called the author's ____________.
What is the author's exigency?
A research study about plate tectonics and the movement of continents would be written using this type of diction.
What is academic diction?
MLK Jr.: "In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action."
This is a ___________ sentence.
What is a cumulative/loose sentence?
Popular comic strips like "Peanuts" contains _____________ in order to show characters like Snoopy & Woodstock.
What is anthropomorphism?
Hamlet: "To be, or not to be, that is the question."
This soliloquy is an example of ________.
What is aporia?
"It must be true! My pastor said so!"
This is an example of __________.
What is appeal to authority?
biography, criticism, essays, journalism, and nature writing are all examples of literary __________.
What are literary genres?
An essay that enumerates & describes the different types of love (philio, eros, agape, etc.) would be written with this type of diction.
What is abstract/philosophical diction?
"But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim;... then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait."
This is a __________ sentence.
What is a periodic sentence?
"Her voice was as smooth as cream."
This is an example of ________.
What is synesthesia?
MLK: "Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson scratched across the pages of history the majestic word of the Declaration of Independence, we were here…. "
This contains an example of BOTH ____________ AND ____________.
What are anaphora AND epistrophe?
Note: You must identify both answers.
KFC is one of the most popular fast food franchises on earth. Therefore Colonel Sanders should run for President of the United States.
This is an example of __________
What is Non sequitur?