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Answer in complete
sentences in detail and submit hard copy responses on November 28, 2016.
What is the controversial
and unpopular suggestion that Roosevelt hopes his audience will accept?
SOAP(STONE)
Subject
Occasion
Audience
Purpose
Speaker
TONE
What is the subject of
the inaugural address?
What is the occasion
of the inaugural address? (Occasion: Why
the speech or essay came into existence?)(Because he became the thirty-second
president of the United States)(100 234, 2,546 or over you may use numerals;
one to ninety-nine) twenty-one; twenty-two;
forty-one; ninety-nine sixteen nineteen
Who is the audience of
the inaugural address? (people who arrived in D.C. to hear the new president
make his first speech of his presidency for the entire United States)
What is the purpose of
the inaugural address?
Identify examples of
ethos, pathos and logos in the inaugural address. Cite specific quotes to provide evidence of
your analysis. (ethos-ethics credentials-trust-believable
counterargument-accountability-fairness) pathos (loaded words--emotional
appeal); logos (does it make sense—is it logical? facts, statistics)
Cite any other rhetorical
devices in the inaugural address and provide evidence of their purpose
and effect.
List any shifts of tone
in the inaugural address. Be specific.
(inspiring; hopeful; optimistic; persuasive; candid; ceremonial; forthright;
authoritative; determined)
List any unfamiliar
diction in the inaugural address. (callous-cruel disregard-wrongdoing);
(languishes-fatigue due to amount of work-lack of vitality)(curtailment-action
or fact of reducing or restricting something, such as crime)
Cite one example of each
of the following sentence types (syntax):
a.
Declarative-states
a fact or makes a statement (.)
b.
Interrogative-asks
a question (?)
c.
Imperative-polite
command or request (You)—understood to be the subject (.) (!)
d.
Exclamatory-mild
excitement (!)
Carefully read President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Inaugural
Address, paying special attention to Roosevelt’s use of language and the
techniques he employs to guide his audience to hopefully accept a possibly
controversial and unpopular suggestion.
Then, write a thoughtful and well-supported paper in which you analyze
the techniques Roosevelt uses to maintain his hearers’ interest and
support. Do not merely summarize the
passage or list the various devices used.
OUTLINE of FDR FIRST INAUGURAL (Harvard Outline)
(sentence outline) (NOT a phrase outline) DO NOT MIX! It has to be all sentences OR all phrases.
Never have a A. without a B.; never have a 1. without a 2.
I.
Roosevelt’s
Inaugural Address is an important step in healing a country devastated by the
Depression.
A.
This speech uses
language and rhetorical devices to get his audience’ attention so they will
accept his ideas about how to improve the country.
B.
The controversial
and unpopular suggestion the president makes is something that the audience has
never heard and the president must lead them to understand that war is
necessary to fight this battle.
C.
