SOAPSTone

Question 1

SOPSTone

Answer 1

S - Speaker
O - Occasion
A - Audience
P - Purpose
S - Style
Tone - Tone

Question 2

speaker

Answer 2

• author’s name
• background/personal experience
• prejudices/bias
• e.g. Lincoln, war-time President, suffered from depression

Question 3

occasion

Answer 3

• when argument was written
• environment of argument (politically, culturally, emotionally)
• e.g. Civil War, high tensions about continuing war

Question 4

audience

Answer 4

• people/person argument addresses

- e.g. people of the North who want the war to be over

Question 5

purpose

Answer 5

• remember PIES to determine purpose
• Persuade
• inform
• explain
• share feelings
• e.g. to persuade the people of the North to continue the war

Question 6

style

Answer 6

• rhetorical devices
• rhetorical appeals
• organization used by author
• e.g. appeals to pathos, eloquent diction

Question 7

tone

Answer 7

• author’s attitude about subject/topic being argued

- e.g. authoritative, commending

Question 8

which example shows information that could be used for this part of the SOAPSTone?
Speaker: ?

Answer 8

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address written by speechwriter Sorensen

Question 9

which example shows information that could be used for this part of the SOAPSTone?
Purpose: ?

Answer 9

Washington’s purpose was to enforce the need for the Constitution and set an inaugural precedent

Question 10

which example shows information that could be used for this part of the SOAPSTone?
Audience: ?

Answer 10

the person or group of people the author is addressing

Question 11

which example shows information that could be used for this part of the SOAPSTone?
Tone: ?

Answer 11

a description of the tone of the piece, using words like “remorseful,” “undecided”

Question 12

which example shows information that could be used for this part of the SOAPSTone?
Speaker: ?

Answer 12

author’s name, background, experience, emotions

Question 13

which example shows information that could be used for this part of the SOAPSTone?
Occasion: ?

Answer 13

January 20, 1961, on the east from of the US Capitol. Kennedy’s inaugural address in the winter

Question 14

which example shows information that could be used for this part of the SOAPSTone?
Style: ?

Answer 14

The brief speech had short choppy sentences; he used an inverse structure called a chiasmus

Question 15

which example shows information that could be used for this part of the SOAPSTone?
Speaker: ?

Answer 15

Virginia Woolf was a famous writer who had a sexist father; she educated herself and spoke

Question 16

which example shows information that could be used for this part of the SOAPSTone?
Purpose: ?

Answer 16

Roosevelt wanted to encourage congress to go to war with japan and to get citizen support for war

Question 17

which example shows information that could be used for this part of the SOAPSTone?
Speaker: ?

Answer 17

George Washington was the commander in chief of the Continental Army and had just been elected