Rhetorical Analysis Using SOAPSTone
| Speaker | Who is the speaker? What is the speaker like? Describe the speaker’s personality. |
| Occasion | What is the cultural &
historical context? Describe the settings within the piece— time, place, situation |
| Audience | Who is the intended audience? What are they like? What might be their attitudes? Their expectations? |
| Purpose | What response does the speaker
expect? Why did the author write this piece? |
| Subject | What is the piece about? Why is this subject important to the author? To the speaker? To us? |
| Tone | What is the speaker’s attitude? How is this attitude conveyed through diction? details? figurative language? sentence style? |