SLO Terms

Question 1

Evaluate

Answer 1

Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of 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 of associations that a word or phrase suggest in addition to its dictionary meaning

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Inference

Answer 6

A judgment 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 the work itself.

Question 8

Evidence

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Juxtaposition

Answer 9

Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for comparison and contrast.

Question 10

Rhetoric

Answer 10

The ART and study of effective writing and speech.

Question 11

Diction

Answer 11

Specific WORD choices an author makes to persuade or convey tone.

Question 12

Logos

Answer 12

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 13

Phrase

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Clause

Answer 14

A group of words containing at least one paired subject and predicate.

Question 15

Ethos

Question 16

Pathos

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Reasons

Answer 17

Statements of logic that offer support for an argument

Question 18

Claims

Answer 18

Any statement of belief that can be contested; argument

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

Claim of Value

Answer 20

A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

Question 21

Fallacy

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Claim of Policy

Answer 22

A statement made to endorse specific courses of action

Question 23

Claim of Fact

Answer 23

A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

Question 24

Fused Sentence

Answer 24

A type of Run-On sentence in which writer has failed to make any attempt either to link or separate two independent clauses, utilizing neither punctuation, nor conjunctions

Question 25

Loose Sentence

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 or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

Question 27

Ambiguity

Answer 27

The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage

Question 28

Periodic Sentence

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Concession

Answer 29

An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent’s point

Question 30

Refutation

Answer 30

Countering of anticipated arguments