How to Write Rhetorical Analysis

What is rhetorical analysis?

• You are being asked to identify the particular strategies that an author is using to appeal to or persuade a given audience.
• You are being asked to provide evidence for how effective the author's argument is.
• You are being asked to analyze various documents to support the author's argument.
• You are being asked to create your own argument on a point using your own devices.

How should a rhetorical analysis be realistically formatted?

• 1 intro, 6 body paragraphs, 1 conclusion
• 3 body paragraphs, conclusion
• 1 intro, 2-3 body paragraphs, 1 conclusion
• 1 intro, 1 body paragraph, 1 conclusion

A rhetorical analysis is an essay evaluating the appeals used by the author!

• True!
• False!

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which is the most effective rhetorical precis?

• Smith applies a multitude of strategies such as syntax, positive diction, and metaphor in his article. I agree with him because of effective reasoning and pathos.
• In Smith's compelling article, "If you give a Dog a Collar," he employs the use of various strategies such as syntax, positive diction, and metaphor to effectively build his argument that dogs should wear collars.
• In "If You Give a Dog a Collar," the argument is ineffective because the reasoning that Smith uses is morally wrong.
• In Smith's article, there is a lot of syntax, diction, and metaphors. These are good because when you use them you make your argument kind of better.

True or false: A rhetorical analysis is a summary of the given text.

• True!
• False!

What does SOAPS stand for?

• Syntax Opinion Audience Preterite Sentences
• Speaker Occasion Audience Purpose Subject
• Subject Occasion Attention Preterite Speaker
• Syntax Occasion Audience Purpose Speaker

Tags

CCSS.RF.K.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3B

CCSS.RF.K.3C

CCSS.RF.K.3D

CCSS.RF.K.4

Your body paragraph should consist of mainly...

• Analysis
• Text Evidence
• Summarization of the text
• Restatement of the Thesis

Which of these verbs should ^NOT be used in the case of analysis? (The weakest verb)

• implies
• argues
• contrasts
• shows

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

Which of these would be the best to analyze for _diction?

• The pretty girl walked to the store with her puppy.
• The boy surveyed the class and congratulated himself for snagging the A on his test.
• Sylvester gave Clarence a mean look because she took his pencil.
• The fox walked to the barn with the hen next to him.

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

What font and size should be used for your MLA formatted rhetorical analysis essay?

• Times New Roman size 12
• Wingdings size 13
• Times New Roman Size 18
• Brittanic Bold Size 12

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9