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AP Language and Composition

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Homework

Read and annotate "The Declaration of Independence" in the 50 Essays book. 
Create  a SOAPSTone chart
Answer the following (must use complete sentences and explain in 2-3 sentences):
What is the dominant rhetorical mode?

What rhetorical strategies does the speaker begin with? What function and effect do the strategies have on the audience?

What rhetorical strategies does the speaker continue with? What function and effect do the strategies have on the audience?

How does the speaker end the piece? Is he successful towards his purpose? Why or why not?


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Rhetorical Devices List #1

You will add the following to your composition book and to your table of contents.

Rhetorical Device
Meaning of rhetorical device
Example of how it is used in writing
Your own explanation of what the rhetorical device means (at least one sentence in your own words)


List #1
Abstract
Allusion/Alludes/ Classical Allusion (you must note the differences in each, but they fall under allusion)
Ambiguity
Anecdote/Anecdotal
Antithesis/Antithetical
Appeal to authority
Author's purpose
Didactic
Analogy
Antecedent

You will be tested on this next week. Also, expect to see terms from the first test again. 
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    Links to tools you will need:

    Edmodo
    Remind
    NPR
    American Rhetoric
    Quizlet
    ​Precis
    ​Paramedic Method (revision)
    ​Summer Reading

    “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
    ​― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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