1. Analysis Walkthrough
TAG: Title, Author, and Genre
Ask Guiding Question: Figure out your job. Are there any implied questions?
Read and Annotate on Chunks and Major Language Choices (Style). Consider:
SOAPSTone: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, PURPOSE, Subject, and Tone
The Three Appeals: Logos , Pathos, and Ethos
Diction
Syntax
Rhetorical Devices/Literary Elements (Strategies/Choices)
Shifts
Chunk & Summarize
Thesis/Claim: Answer the Guiding Question SPECIFICALLY
Select the Most Important Rhetorical Choices You Will Discuss – consider the chunks!
Write Paper: Quote & Comment - Multiple chunks of quotes and commentary (1:2 sentence ratio) is superior. Use TIES: Tag, Introduce, Embed, or Split quotes.
PETER Paragraphs: Support your answering of the question with a Point, Example (Citation), Term/Technique, Explain, and Relate for each body paragraph – multiple ETE is better.
TSS: Rephrase THESIS, SUMMARIZE, and SUPER SO WHAT?

2. The Basics (+adjective) Subject Zeugma/Pun Diction Tone Allusion
The Appeals
SOAPSTone
Devices/Strategies
Repetition
Logos - Logic
Speaker
Rhetorical Question
-Anaphora
Ethos - Credibility
Occasion
-Hypophora
-Epistrophe
Pathos - Emotions
Audience
Juxtaposition
-Symplocee
PURPOSE
-Antithesis
Distinctio
The Basics (+adjective)
Subject
-Paradox
Zeugma/Pun
Diction
Tone
-Oxymoron
Allusion
Parallelism/Parallel Structure
-Denotation
Polysyndeton
-Connotation
Patterns of Development
Asyndeton
Syntax
-Chiasmus
Figurative Language
-Sentence Types
Alliteration
Narration
-Analogy
-Sentence Purpose
Satire (Parody)
Description
-Simile
-Sentence Complexity
Irony
-Metaphor (Extended)
Process Analysis
-Order
-Verbal
-Hyperbole
Exemplification
-Punctuation
-Situational
-Understatement
Comparison & Contrast
Shifts
-Dramatic
-Litote
Classification & Division
-Tone
-Imagery
Definition
-Topic/Subject
Cause & Effect
-Pronouns/Perspective