Environmentalists v People First 2009 - Introduction

Question 1

style

Answer 1

• let them work out conservation. they are the real grass roots in this country (pun, a play on words)
• they keep their right-wing political agenda mostly hidden when downgrading climate change (hyperbole)
• “we know them” “these people” “you’ll ever” “what they are” (us versus them mentality)
• conservation should be kept in perspective. it is best put in private hands (irony)
• they care about the plants and animals living there (generalization)
• mark my word, conservation pushed by these people (colloquial language)
• “critics” of the environmental movement? (rhetorical questions)
• worst bunch of hypocrites you’ll ever not want to find… corporate heads and big-time landowners (stereotyping rhetoric)
• “can’t sell to a developer, can’t even harvest your woodlot” “can’t get at the oil” (parallel structure)
• greens, enviros, environmental extremists, or environmental wackos (powerful word choice)
• anti-environmentalists and brown lashers or, more locally out west, wise users and sagebrush rebels (stereotyping rhetoric)
• a strong, growing free-market economy, not creeping socialism, is what’s best for America (personification)
• bennington college student with a summer job (allusion)
• are your tax dollars and mine, and ultimately our freedom too (hyperbole)
• relax your guard when these people are in power and your property rights go down the tube (hyperbole)
• the Endangered species act will be used to shut you down (hyperbole)
• how to get power? (rhetorical question)

Question 2

which part of the task defines what stance the Warrant should be justifying?

Answer 2

…the unproductive nature of such discussion

Question 3

speaker

Answer 3

• wilson satirizes the language of two groups that hold opposing attitude about environmentalism
• depending on how angry we are, we call them (from the point of view of the writer)

Question 4

SOAPSTone

Answer 4

• speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, style, tone

Question 5

audience

Answer 5

• depending on how angry we are, we call them

- environmentalists or conservationists is what they usually call themselves (what they call themselves)

Question 6

which is the task?

Answer 6

• then write an essay in which you analyze how Wilson’s satire illustrates the unproductive nature…

Question 7

purpose

Answer 7

analyze how Wilson’s satire illustrates the unproductive nature of such discussions

Question 8

occasion

Answer 8

contemporary scientist Edward O. Wilson, appear in Wilson’s book The Future of Life (2002)

Question 9

claim

Answer 9

…analyze how Wilson’s satire illustrates…