Vocabulary Quiz 18 today.

Writing Exercise #7 (continued)

Write a well-developed SOAPS tone (1-3 sentences) for "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift.

S=Speaker
O=Occasion
A=Audience
P=Purpose
S=Subject
Tone=Attitude

Prewrite by writing the acronym vertically.  Take some time to THINK it through first.  Roughly fill in each.  Occasion means "Why was this piece written in the first place?  What was going on at the time that led the speaker to write it?"  Once you have all 6 filled out, then sketch your sentence(s).