1. Rhetorical Triangle and Key Terms
Week 1
SOAPSTone (speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, tone)

2. Writer/Speaker
The imaginary voice, or persona, assumed by the author of a poem or writing piece
Including:
Historical and/or cultural context
How those contexts effect or influence the work?
Questions to consider:
-Who are you? What details will you reveal? Why is it important that the audience know who you are?
-Who is being discussed? What details are revealed about that person? Why is it important that the audience know who is being discussed?

3. Occasion
The time and the place of the piece; the context that prompted the writing.
an environment of ideas, attitudes, and emotions that swirl around a broad issue. As a result there is the immediate 
Larger Occasion: an environment of ideas, attitudes, and emotions that swirl around a broad issue
Immediate Occasion: an event or situation that catches the writer's attention and triggers a response.
Formal
Informal

4. Audience The group of readers to whom this piece is directed. Direct
Who is the audience they intend to address?
Is it one person or a specific group?
The choice of audience will affect how and why students write a particular text.
Direct
Indirect
Primary
Secondary

5. Purpose The reason behind the text Types of purpose:
Students must consider:
The purpose of the text in order to develop thesis or the argument and its logic.
Ask oneself “What do I want my audience to think or do as a result of reading the text?”
Types of purpose:
To persuade
To entertain
To inform

6. Subject The general topic the author is writing about
Questions to consider:
-Who are you? What details will you reveal? Why is it important that the audience know who you are?
-Who is being discussed? What details are revealed about that person? Why is it important that the audience know who is being discussed?

7. Tone The attitude of the author
Extends the meaning of text beyond the literal and learning how to convey this tone in their diction.
What attitude do you want your audience to feel?
How will your attitude enhance the effectiveness of your piece?
Choose a few words or phrases that will reflect a particular attitude?

8. persona The type of person you present yourself to be
The character that the audience perceives behind the text
Often based on who the rhetor presumes the audience to be and what he or she knows and believes about the subject of the text.

9. rhetoric
The art humans use to process all the messages we send and receive

10. diction
Choice of words

11. syntax
Sentence construction

12. imagery
Language that appeals to the senses.

13. metaphor
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using a connective word like, as, than, or resembles.

14. The Rhetorical Triangle(a.k.a Aristotelian Triad)
speaker or writer
audience or reader
subject