SLO Vocab 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 suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning.
Irony
Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result.
Inference
A judgement 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.
Refutation
Countering of anticipated arguments.
Rhetoric
The art and study of effective writing and speech.
Diction
Specific word choices an author makes to persuade or to convey tone.
Ex: “She began imitating his careful diction.”
Clause
A group of words containing at least one paired subject and predicate.
Phrase
A group of words that do not contain at least one paired subject and predicate.
Ethos
Mode of persuasion requiring speakers to establish their credibility, skill, or morality on a given subject to an intended audience.
Pathos
Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the various emotions of the audience, including fear, inspiration, intimidation, idealism, anger, nostalgia, despair, optimism, etc.
Evidence
Proof coming from sources, fieldwork, and research that validates any logical support of an argument.
Reasons
Statements of logic that offer support for an 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.
Claims
Any statements or beliefs that can be contested; argument.
Claim of Value
A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral.
Logo
Mode of persuasion speakers us when appealing to the audience’s ability to distinguish, through discourse, the difference between what is reasonable or unreasonable.
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 the 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.
Periodic Sentence
A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word.
Ambiguity
The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage.
Concession
An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent’s point.
Juxtaposition
Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for comparison and contrast.
