Slo Vocab Terms Flashcards
Connotation
The range of associations that a word or phrase suggest in addition to its dictionary meaning
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
Irony
Incongruity between the actual result of a sequences of event 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 or another,especially for comparison and contrast
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 on 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.
logos
Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audiance’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
Reaons
Statement of logic that offers support for an argument
Comma splice
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.
Claim of value
a statement made to show that something is moral or immoral
Fallacy
Rationalistes 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 ink or separate two independent clauses,utilizing neither punctuation, nor conjunction
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 of series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Ambiguity
The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage
Concession
An argumentative strategy by which which a speaker or writer acknowledges the vailitdy of an opponents point
