SLO English 10

Question 1

Evaluate

Answer 1

Examine and judging carefully. To judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality or something: To assess

Question 2

Analysis

Answer 2

The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another

Question 3

Explicit

Answer 3

Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text

Question 4

Connotation

Answer 4

The range associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected results.

Question 6

Inference

Answer 6

A judgement based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances

Question 7

Tone

Answer 7

The attitude of the author toward the audience, characters, subject or work itself.

Question 8

Refutation

Answer 8

Countering of anticipated arguments

Question 9

Juxtaposition

Answer 9

Place one thing adjacent to another. Especially for comparison and contrast

Question 10

Rhetoric

Answer 10

The art or study of effective writing and speech.

Question 11

Diction

Answer 11

Specific word choices an author makes to persuade or to convey tone. Ex: “She began imitating his careful diciton”

Question 12

Phrase

Answer 12

A group of words that do not contain at least one paired subject and predicate

Question 13

Ethos

Answer 13

Mode of persuasion requiring speakers to establish their credibility, skill, or morality, on a given subject to an intended audience

Question 14

Pathos

Answer 14

Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the various emotions of the audience, including fear, inspiration, intimidation, idealism, anger, nostalgia, despair, optimism, etc.

Question 15

Logos

Answer 15

Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audience’s ability to distinguish, through discourse, the difference between what is reasonable or unreasonable.

Question 16

Clause

Answer 16

The group of words containing at least on paired subject and predicate.

Question 17

Evidence

Answer 17

Proof coming from sources, fieldwork, and research that validates any logical support of an argument.

Question 18

Reasons

Answer 18

Statements of logic that offer support for an arguement

Question 19

Comma splice

Answer 19

A type of run-on sentence in which the writer has erroneously placed only a comma between two independent clauses, resulting in a failure to link the two according to grammatical convention

Question 20

Claims

Answer 20

Any statements of belief that can be contested;; argument

Question 21

Claim of Value

Answer 21

A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

Question 22

Fallacy

Answer 22

Rationales for claims that might seem reasonable, but are actually unsound- and usually false.

Question 23

Claim of Policy

Answer 23

A statement made to endorse specific courses of action

Question 24

Claim of Fact

Answer 24

A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

Question 25

Loose Sentance

Answer 25

A sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses

Question 26

Parallelism

Answer 26

The similarity of structure in a pair r series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Question 27

Periodic Sentence

Answer 27

A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word.

Question 28

Ambiguity

Answer 28

The presence of two or more possible meaning in any passage

Question 29

Concession

Answer 29

An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of the other point