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MAPS Analysis of Discourse

(Methods are determined by Audience Purpose and Situation)

MAPS analysis PDF.pdf

"What Do Students Need To Know About Rhetoric?"

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/repository/ap06_englang_roskelly_50098.pdf

Brigham Young University's excellent website on rhetoric, Silva Rhetoricae

Methods (Rhetorical devices):

http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm 

More rhetorical devices: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9O1wSQ9FImjUFVrSDBva3l0ajQ

Go the Aristotle page for excerpts from and explanations of his Rhetoric

Model Analysis: The Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address text

An analysis of the Gettysburg Address that contains all the "chunks" of a rhetorical analysis essay here:

Analysis of the Gettysburg Address

Practice Prompt

Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech to the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

Prompt in PDF format

Organizer template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BgVUD3JE5H5iNHXBfpm6ZbmTmX8Ut4NtIstCIOUq-UA/edit

Background on the convention to establish KAIROS: http://www.npg.si.edu/col/seneca/senfalls1.htm

The Declaration of Sentiments promulgated by the convention, from Fordham University (GO, RAMS!) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.html

Full text of Seneca Falls Conference Speech Delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Pay attention to Stanton's use of...

• allusion
• analogy and metaphor
• antithesis and juxtaposition
• apophasis (in the first paragraph)
• parallelism (second paragraph)
• inverted word order
• repeated words and phrases
• loaded words (connotation)
• humor

How do these methods contribute to the pathos?

How do these methods help her achieve her purpose and persuade her audience?

Hint: The effect is poetic.

The Chunks of the Essay:

• A summary of the kairos (situation, purpose, audience)
• An analysis of the speaker's / writer's dominant appeal (ethos, pathos, logos)
• A text-rooted analysis of prominent rhetorical techniques-- how they contribute to the speaker's / writer's intention and their effect on the audience
• An evaluation of the speaker's / writer's success in achieving his / her purpose.

Samples:

Sample prompt on page 11: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap08_eng_lang_frq.pdf

Actual responses to the above prompt with scoring commentary:

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap08_english_lang_q2.pdf

Speeches for analysis:

"The Destructive Male" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Martin Luther King's acceptance of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize

Malcolm X's "Ballot or Bullet" speech