Review
Test tomorrow
Casey Hall
8 am
Rhetorical Devices
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Alliteration
Allusion
Analogy
Antithesis
Apostrophe
Hyperbole
metaphor
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Metonymy
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Parallelism
Personification
Rhetorical question
Tone
Point of view
Diction
syntax
What to look for when analyzing
style
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Subject
Organization of words, phrases, ideas
Point of view
Diction
Syntax
Rhetorical devices
Attitude and tone
The essays
• Intro:
– Introduce topic and your most important point
– Clearly identify what your position and the
sub-topics you will use to defend your
arguable and defendable point
– Be direct, your intro needs to be functional
first, stylish second
The body
• Topic sentences that establishes the focus
• Background – relevant plot information
that leads in to your evidence
• Evidence – text based references
Blend in a variety of words, phrases,
complete sentences from passage.
• Connection: insightful connections back to
main idea. Think critically!
Foot notes
• Footnotes are most often used as an alternative
to long explanatory notes that can be distracting
to readers. Most literary style guidelines
(including the Modern Language Association
and the American Psychological Association)
recommend limited use of foot and endnotes.
However, publishers often encourage note
references in lieu of parenthetical references.
Aside from use as a bibliographic element,
footnotes are used for additional information or
explanatory notes that might be too digressive
for the main text.
Footnotes
• The MLA (Modern Language Association)
requires the superscript numbers in the main
text to be placed following the punctuation in the
phrase or clause the note is in reference to. The
exception to this rule occurs when you have a
hyphen in a sentence, in which case the
superscript would appear before.
• Aside from their technical use, authors use
footnotes for a variety of reasons:
Footnotes
• As signposts to direct the reader to information the
author has provided or where further useful information
is pertaining to the subject in the main text.
• To attribute to a quote or viewpoint.
• As an alternative to parenthetical references; it is a
simpler way to acknowledge information gained from
another source.
• To escape the limitations imposed on the word count of
various academic and legal texts which do not take into
account footnotes. Aggressive use of this strategy can
lead the text to be seen as affected by what some
people call "footnote disease"
Synthesis Essay
• Introduce quoted info in one of three ways:
1. introduce title and author before the
quote
2. Blend quote into middle of your
sentence with parenthetical reference
3. Place quote at end of sentence after
colon
Synthesis
• Address exactly what the prompt asks
• State your position clearly
Persuasive
• Use any relevant example to support your
opinion
• Consider historical evidence (use
wikipedia to prepare at least three people
or events)
• Don’t be afraid to use personal examples,
but make sure you show insightful
connections to the task (don’t simply relate
your story).
Rhetorical Strategies
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SOAPSTONE
Lean on the text for your evidence
Make insightful connections to the text
Your analysis is more important than the
technical terms
General
• Strive for 5 paragraphs (3 supporting
details for each essay)
• Remember style counts, but substance
matters more.
• Transition between ideas
• Blend quotes
• Make connections – show that you have a
brain
Multiple Choice
• Read carefully
• Process of elimination
• You can omit, but remember, if you get
one right, you get one point. If you get
one wrong, you lose .25 (4 wrong to lose a
point. One right to gain a point)
• Find the best answer. There may be two
choices that seem right
• Find the evidence in the text