Slo Vocab Terms

Question 1

Connotation

Answer 1

The range of associations that a word or phrase suggest in addition to its dictionary meaning

Question 2

Evaluate

Answer 2

Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of something; to assess

Question 3

Analysis

Answer 3

The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another

Question 4

Explicit

Answer 4

Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

Incongruity between the actual result of a sequences of event 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 or another,especially for comparison and contrast

Question 9

Diction

Answer 9

Specific word choices an author makes to persuade or to convey tone
EX:”She began imitating his careful diction”

Question 10

Clause

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Phrase

Answer 11

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

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

Pathos

Answer 13

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 14

logos

Answer 14

Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audiance’s ability to distinguish, through discourse, the difference between what is reasonable or unreasonable

Question 15

Evidence

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Reaons

Answer 16

Statement of logic that offers support for an argument

Question 17

Comma splice

Answer 17

A type of Run- on sentence in which the writer has erroneously placed only a comme between two independent clauses. Resulting in a failure to link the two according to grammatical convention.

Question 18

Claim of value

Answer 18

a statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

Question 19

Fallacy

Answer 19

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

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 ink or separate two independent clauses,utilizing neither punctuation, nor conjunction

Question 23

Loose sentence

Answer 23

A sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses

Question 24

Parallelism

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Ambiguity

Answer 25

The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage

Question 26

Concession

Answer 26

An argumentative strategy by which which a speaker or writer acknowledges the vailitdy of an opponents point