AP Language: SOAPSTONE Flashcards

6616386803	Subject	General topic, ideas, & content in the text	0
6616386804	Occasion	Where & when does the text occur? In what context? What is the rhetorical occasion (eulogy, argument, critique etc.)? Larger occasion: broad issue that is the center of ideas and emotions Immediate occasion: the issue that catches the writer's attention and triggers a response	1
6616386805	Audience	To whom is the text directed? Does the author identify an audience? What assumptions can you make about the primary audience? Individual or group? Additional/secondary audiences? Unintended audiences?	2
6616386806	Purpose	What is the speaker's reason for writing the text? Intended effect? In what ways does the speaker convey the message/purpose? What is the message? How does the speaker want the audience to feel?	3
6616386807	Speaker	The voice telling the story; the point of view from which the story is told *What assumptions can you make about the speaker (age, class, gender, emotional state, political views, biases, beliefs, etc.)?	4
6616386808	Tone	What is the author's attitude towards the subject? How does the diction (choice of words) and syntax (sentence construction) indicate the tone?	5
6616386809	Organization	How is the text organized? How does the writer arrange the content? (Text structures: description, definition, compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, anecdote, etc.)	6
6616390951	Kairos	The timeliness of a speaker's response in a rhetorical situation: - Appropriateness of what is said in the moment - The urgency/need for it to be said at that time - The spontaneity of speaking on the spot	7
6616421612	Ethos	An appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. The audience asks themselves, "What does this person know about this topic?" and "Why should I trust this person?" Can include extrinsic (the character, expertise, education, and experience of the speaker), and intrinsic (how the speaker writes or speaks).	8
6616435924	Logos	The use of the strategies of logic to persuade an audience. If an statement attempts to persuade the audience by making a reasonable claim and offering proof in support of that claim (rather than by trying to make them feel certain emotions, or by making them perceive the speaker as credible), then that statement is a logical argument.	9
6616456764	Pathos	An attempt to appeal to "an audience's sense of identity, their self-interest, and their emotions." Consider the different emotions people are capable of feeling: love, pity, sorrow, affection, anger, fear, greed, lust, and hatred.	10
6616486004	Genre	Narrative (story telling?), Argument, Elegy, Opinion piece, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/satire, political commentary, etc.	11