SLO Vocab 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 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. (The opposite of what you expected to happen happens).

Question 6

Inference

Answer 6

a judgement based on reasoning rather than on a direct of 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

Diction

Answer 11

Specific word choices an author makes to persuade or to convey tone

Question 12

Ethos

Answer 12

Mode of Persuasion requiring speakers to establish their credibility, skill, or morality on a given subject to an intended audience

Question 13

Logos

Answer 13

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 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

Clause

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Phrase

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Evidence

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Reasons

Answer 18

Statements of logic that offer support for an argument

Question 19

Comma Splice

Answer 19

A type of Run-on sentence in which the writer has erroneously (incorrectly) placed only a comma between two independent clauses resulting in a failure to link the two according to grammatical convention.

Question 20

Claims

Answer 20

Any statements of belief that can be contested; argument.

Question 21

Claim of Value

Answer 21

A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral.

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

Fallacy

Answer 24

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

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 min clause is followed by subordinate phrases and 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.
Ex. “When the cafe is too crowded, I work at home”

Question 28

Parallelism

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Ambiguity

Answer 29

The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage.

Question 30

Concession

Answer 30

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