Review

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Casey Hall

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Rhetorical Devices

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Antithesis

• Apostrophe

• Hyperbole

• metaphor

• Metonymy• Onomatopoeia• Oxymoron• Parallelism• Personification• Rhetorical question• Tone• Point of view• Diction• syntax

What to look for when analyzing style

• 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

• 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