1. 1. Take out your HW 2. Journal #3: Read through The Mayflower Compact. Working with a partner, discuss how you would describe the author’s style.

2. Aim: What part does style play in analyzing rhetoric? Diction Syntax Tone Figurative Language

3. Aim: What part does style play in analyzing rhetoric? Diction is defined as WORD CHOICE Is the diction mostly formal or mostly informal? Mostly polysyllabic (Latinate and Greek) words or mostly short (Anglo-Saxon) words? Is the diction scientific, scholarly, or conversational? If it's conversational, is it colloquial? Slang?

4. Aim: What part does style play in analyzing rhetoric? Syntax refers to the arrangement of words in a sentence. Are the sentences mostly long or mostly short? Are most of the sentences meandering, or are they terse? What kinds of punctuation do we see? How does this punctuation establish relationships among ideas within the sentences? Is there cataloging of information?

5. Aim: What part does style play in analyzing rhetoric? Tone is the attitude of the author. Is the tone mostly serious or mostly playful? What emotions do you sense from the writer?

6. Aim: What part does style play in analyzing rhetoric? critical arrogant whimsical detached angry pretentious fanciful apathetic threatening condescending wistful ironic happy mocking sad indifferent irate patronizing flippant straightforward outraged humorous nostalgic candid indignant bantering sentimental didactic ambiguous silly reflective

7. Aim: What part does style play in analyzing rhetoric? FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE--writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning (simile, metaphor). Usually meant to be imaginative and or vivid. Is the language mostly literal or mostly metaphorical? Do the metaphors bring to mind something positive or something negative?

8. Aim: What part does style play in analyzing rhetoric? I hear the boot of Lucifer! I see his filthy face! And it is your face, and mine Danforth, when men quail to bring men out ignorance as you have quailed when you know in your black heart that this be fraud! God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together! -John Proctor