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 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 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 fasts or circumstances.

Question 7

Tone

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Juxtaposition

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Rhetoric

Answer 9

The ART and study of effective writing and speech.

Question 10

Diction

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Phrase

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Clause

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Ethos

Answer 13

Mode of persuasion requiring speakers to establish 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

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

Comma splice

Answer 18

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 19

Claims

Answer 19

Any statement of belief that can be contested; argument

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 the 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 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

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 meanings in any passage

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.