AP Language: Rhetorical Analysis Essay

What does SOAPS stand for?

subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and speaker

What is another word to approach the concept of the rhetorical situation that is not in SOAPS?

tone

What is rhetoric?

the faculty of observing in an given case the available means of persuasion

Rhetoric is sometimes thought of with a negative connotation, but it is just what; there is no trickery involved in its definition?

persuasion

What are the three rhetorical appeals?

ethos, pathos, logos

What is ethos?

an appeal to ethics and a means of convincing someone of the credibility of the persuader

What are examples of ethos?

education (degrees, qualifications), experience, authority

What is pathos?

an appeal to emotion and a means of convincing someone of an argument by creating an emotional response

What are examples of pathos?

desires, values, hopes, fears, prejudices, guilts

What is logos?

an appeal to logic and a a means of convincing someone by reason

What are examples of logos?

reasons, evidence, statistics

What is counterargument

AN opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward and denying it

Persona

the role, attitude, personality a writer assumes in order to achieve a literary purpose

Rhetorical Triangle

Diction

The important and individual words the author uses

Imagery

The word pictures created by groups of words. Vivid imagery. Appeals to understanding through the senses.

Syntax

syntax refers to sentence structure

Tone

Attitude of author