Slo Vocab

Question 1

Evaluate

Answer 1

Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of something ; to access

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 associtations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictonary meaning.

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

incrogunity between the actual result of a sequence of events and expected result

Question 6

Inference

Answer 6

A judgement based on reasoning rather than on a irect or explicit statment. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances.

Question 7

Tone

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Refutation

Answer 8

Countering of anticipated arguments

Question 9

Juxtapositition

Answer 9

placing one thing adjacent to another. espically for comparrison 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 pursuade or to convey tone

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 intend audience

Question 14

Pathos

Answer 14

mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the various emotions o the audience, including fear, inspiration, intimidation, idealism, anger, nastolgia, despair, optimism, ect.

Question 15

logos

Answer 15

mode of persuuasion speakers use when appealing to the audiences ability to distuingusih through discourse the difference between what is reasonable and unreasonable

Question 16

evdience

Answer 16

proof coming from sources, fieldwork, and resherach that validates any logical support of an argument.

Question 17

reasons

Answer 17

statments of logic that offer support for an argument

Question 18

Comma Splice

Answer 18

A type of run on sentence in which the writer has erroneously placed only a comma between two independent clause. Resulting in a failure to link the two according to gramatical convention

Question 19

claims

Answer 19

Any statment of belif that can be contested : argument

Question 20

Fallacy

Answer 20

Rationals for claims that might seem reasonable, but are actually unsound, and usally false

Question 21

clause

Answer 21

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

Question 22

claim of value

Answer 22

a statment made to show that something is mortal or immortal

Question 23

Claim of policy

Answer 23

A statment made to endorse specific specific courses of action

Question 24

Fused sentance

Answer 24

A type of run on sentance in which the writer has failed to make any attempt either to link or seperate 2 independent clauses, utilizing neither puncuation nor conjunctions

Question 25

Claim of Fact

Answer 25

A statment made to verify teh authenicity of something

Question 26

parallelism

Answer 26

the similarity of structure in a pair or sersies of related words, phrases, or clauses

Question 27

Fused sentence

Answer 27

a type of run on sentance in which the writer has failed to make any attempt either to link or seperate two independant clauses, utalizing either puncuation, nor conjunctions

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

Ambiguity

Answer 29

the presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage

Question 30

concession

Answer 30

an agrumentaive stradgey by which a speaker or writer aknowledges the validity of an opponents point