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SOAPSTONE

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  • S: King Jr, minister, logical, in control
  • O: upon his arrest in Birmingham
  • A: fellow clergymen, critical of his actions
  • P: argue his protest is warranted + needed
  • S: ethos, pathos, logos (syllogism), allusions, syntactic parallelism, cataloguing, questioning
  • TONE: instructive, scholarly, dismissive yet polite
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focus: rhetorical devices - syllogism

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  • watch for syllogism in this essay: an argumentative structure based on two premises
  • be sure to make arguments as long as they need to be to get your point across – which is part of being clear, concise, and consistent
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step 1

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King

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step 2

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amplifies

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step 3

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his appeal to ethos

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step 4

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by alluding to and paralleling his circumstances and actions with other respected figures of history

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note

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  • offers, establishes, develops
  • parallel structure, impassioned tone, idioms
  • “the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice;”
  • that the lack of action by moderate Americans passively supports segregation
  • offers

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