SLO Terms Flashcards
Evaluate
Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of something; to assess.
Analysis
The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another
Explicit
Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text
Connotation
The range of associations that a word or phrase suggest in addition to its dictionary meaning
Irony
Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence events and expected result.
Inference
A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances.
Tone
The attitude of the author toward the audience, characters, subject, or the work itself.
Evidence
Proof coming from sources, fieldwork, and research that validates any logical support of an argument
Juxtaposition
Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for comparison and contrast.
Rhetoric
The ART and study of effective writing and speech.
Diction
Specific WORD choices an author makes to persuade or convey tone.
Logos
Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audience’s ability to distinguish, through discourse, the difference between what is reasonable or unreasonable.
Phrase
A group of words that do not contain at least one paired subject and predicate.
Clause
A group of words containing at least one paired subject and predicate.
Ethos
Pathos
Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing the various emotions of the audience. including fear, inspiration, intimidation, idealism, anger, nostalgia, despair, optimism, ect.
Reasons
Statements of logic that offer support for an argument
Claims
Any statement of belief that can be contested; argument
Comma splice
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
Claim of Value
A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral
Fallacy
Rationales for claims that might seem reasonable, but are actually unsound- and usually false
Claim of Policy
A statement made to endorse specific courses of action
Claim of Fact
A statement made to verify the authenticity of something
Fused Sentence
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
Loose Sentence
A sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses
Parallelism
The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
Ambiguity
The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage
Periodic Sentence
A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word.
Concession
An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent’s point
Refutation
Countering of anticipated arguments
