SLO Vocab

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 a 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 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 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

Refutation

Answer 8

Countering of anticipated arguments.

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

Clause

Answer 11

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

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 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

Evidence

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Reason

Answer 17

Statements of logic that offer support for an argument

Question 18

Claim of Value

Answer 18

A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

Question 19

Fallacy

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Diction

Answer 20

Specific word choice an author makes to persuade or to convey time. Ex. “She began imitating his careful diction”.

Question 21

Claims

Answer 21

Any statements or beliefs that can be contested; argument

Question 22

Comma Splice

Answer 22

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 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

Fused sentence

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Loose Sentence

Answer 26

A sentence Structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and 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 frequently involved sentence marked by suspended suntax, 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

Parallelism

Answer 30

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