AP Lang + Comp Midterm

What does the acronym SOAPStone stand for?

What does the word exigence mean?

What does the word tone mean?

What is the tone of this passage?
"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!

"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!

• Formal

• Empathetic

• Passionate

• Angry

What is the tone of this passage?

Generosity connects human beings. It is a powerful core value we share across ideologies and identities. It’s how we relate to our community, family and intrinsic sense of belonging. My wife, Luz, and I have taught it to our kids, Lin-Manuel, Luz and Miguel — the spirit of generosity from our community in Puerto Rico to the streets of Washington Heights.

• Positive

• Concerned

• Informal

• Angsty

What is rhetoric?

Which of these is an example of using targeted language to address their specific audience?

• You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe.

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  If we Americans listened to one another, perhaps we would recognize how absurd our discourse has become.

• I have a message for you: It is not you who should feel shame, it is we. We who tolerate ignorance and practice prejudice, we who have taught you to fear. We must lift our shroud of silence, making it safe for you to reach out for compassion.

• I will not hurry to leave you, my children. But when I go, I pray that you will not suffer shame on my account.

What type of claim is this:

In the U.S., we need to change the laws so everyone has the right to vote when they turn 16.

• Policy

• Fact

• Value

• Argument

What type of claim is this?

It is wrong and dehumanizing to use the language of the judicial system to discuss people who have criminal records.

• Fact

• Value

• Policy

• Argument

What type of claim is this:

It doesn't matter what popular culture says, the fact is that men and women spend equal time speaking during the work day.

• Fact

• Opinion

• Value

• Policy