1. Secondary ELA MDT

2. The art of using words to persuade in writing or reading. All types of writing—fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry—seek to persuade. College Board

3. The study of how a writer uses elements of language—diction, detail, image, tone, syntax, logical ordering, etc—to achieve a specific purpose. College Board

4.  Speeches  Cartoons  Advertisements  Letters  Poetry  Prose  Magazine and newspaper articles on controversial issues

5. AUDIENCECONTEXT WRITER TEXT

6. Writer Who is the writer and what type of writer is he or she? What stance is he or she taking? What are his or her beliefs, values, and assumptions? Text What is the text’s message? How is it constructed? How does the text create meaning? How are these meaning influenced by the writer? Audience Who is the intended audience for the text? Why? What is the purpose of the writing? Context In what historical context was the text written? How does the context affect the text’s meaning?

7. Purpose To attack or defend? To exhort or dissuade from certain action? To praise or blame? To teach, to delight, or to persuade? Audience Who is the audience for the text? What values does the audience hold? Why is the writer addressing this particular audience? Exigence What is the cause (the occasion) of the text?What need or urgency is it responding to?

8. Logos Pathos Ethos Tone appeal to audience’s sense of reason using facts, statistics, evidence appeal to audience’s virtue, morals, prudence appeal to audience’s emotions

9. Organization/Structure/Form DictionImagerySyntax Figurative Language Word choiceSentence structure Words that appeal to five senses Hyperbole Metaphor Metonymy Simile Personification Apostrophe