SLO Vocab Terms Flashcards
Evaluate
Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of something; to access.
Analysis
The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another.
Explicit
Clearly expressed or fully stated i the actual text.
Connotation
The rage 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.
Refutation
Countering of anticipation arguments
Juxtaposition
Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for comparison ad contrast.
Rhetoric
The art and study of effective writing and speech
Diction
Specific word choices a author makes to persuade or to convey tone
EX: “She began imitating hid careful diction”
Clause
A group of words containing at least one paired subject and predicate
Phrase
A group f 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, idealism, anger, nostalgia, despair, optimism, etc.
Logos
Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audience’s ability to distinguish, through discourse, the difference between what is reasonable or unreasonable
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.
Claim of Value
A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral
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 separated two independent clauses, utilizing neither punctuation, nor conjunction
Parallelism
The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or causes
Periodic Sentence
A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word
