SLO Vocab Terms

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 the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another.

Question 3

Explicit

Answer 3

Clearly expressed or fully stated i the actual text.

Question 4

Connotation

Answer 4

The rage 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 judgement based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances.

Question 7

Refutation

Answer 7

Countering of anticipation arguments

Question 8

Juxtaposition

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Rhetoric

Answer 9

The art and study of effective writing and speech

Question 10

Diction

Answer 10

Specific word choices a author makes to persuade or to convey tone
EX: “She began imitating hid careful diction”

Question 11

Clause

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Phrase

Answer 12

A group f 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 an intended audience

Question 14

Pathos

Answer 14

Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the various emotions of the audience, including fear, 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

Reasons

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

Claim of Value

Answer 19

A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

Question 20

Claim of Policy

Answer 20

A statement made to endorse specific courses of action

Question 21

Claim of Fact

Answer 21

A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

Question 22

Fused Sentence

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Parallelism

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Periodic Sentence

Answer 24

A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word

Question 25

Ambiguity

Answer 25

The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage