WorksheetsRhetorical Analysis 1
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
What elements make up the rhetorical triangle?
purpose, context, speaker, tone
purpose, context, speaker, audience
occasion, context, speaker, audience
purpose, tone, speaker, audience
What does SOAPS stand for?
(a)
What does "occasion" mean?
Where the writing took place.
Why the writing took place.
The event that was created because of the writing.
The event that prompted the writing.
What is diction?
The choice of words a speaker/writer uses.
The way a writer/speaker pronounces words.
The effect of words on an audience.
The purpose of words.
Which item is not a rhetorical mode (way a text is organized)?
description
narration
cause/effect
speech
Identify the rhetorical mode
"The building was being swallowed by blue, orange, and red flames. Wood
was everywhere on the ground, black, burned, smoldering with smoke."
narration
description
cause/effect
exposition
Identify the rhetorical mode
"Another train route was created which reduced traffic in the area."
argumentation
exemplification
cause/effect
persuasion
Identify the rhetorical mode
"Shanghai is more cosmopolitan than Shenzhen."
comparison/
contrast
narration
classification/
definition
argumentation
Identify the rhetorical mode
"He went down the road slowly and reached the prison. They opened
the door. He went in. 30 years is a long time."
exemplification
cause/effect
description
narration
What is the tone?
"The rich owner looked at the cook---'Pick up that rag on the ground'"
skeptical
affectionate
demeaning
hollow
Identify the diction term.
"Girl, you slayed it!"
slang
colloquial
jargon
literal
Identify the diction term.
The baby began to talk: "car, mom, cat..."
cacophonous
euphonius
monosyllabic
polysyllabic
Identify the diction term.
She screamed like a hyena arriving last at the meal.
literal
figurative
concrete
slang
