SLO Vocab Terms

Question 1

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

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Inference

Question 2

Examine and judge carefully, to judge or determind the quality of something to assess

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Evaluate

Question 3

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

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Analysis

Question 4

Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text

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Explicit

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

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Connotation

Question 6

Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result

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Irony

Question 7

The attitude of the author toward the audience , characters, subject, or the work itself

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Tone

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Countering of anticipated arguments

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Refutation

Question 9

Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for comparision and contrast

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Juxtaposition

Question 10

The art and study of effective writing and speech

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Rhetoric

Question 11

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

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Diction

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

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Phrase

Question 13

Mode of persuasion requiring speakers to establish their credibility, skill, or morality on a given subject to an intended audience

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Ethos

Question 14

Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the various emotions of the audience, including fear, inspiration, intimidation, idealism, anger, nostaligia, despair, optimism, etc.

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Pathos

Question 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

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Logos

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

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Evidence

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Statements of logic that offer support for an argument

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Reasons

Question 18

A type of Run-on sentence in which the writer erroneosly placed only a comma between two independent clauses, resulting in a failure to link the link the two according to grammatical convention.

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Comma Splice

Question 19

Any statement of belief that can be contested; argument

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Claims

Question 20

A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

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Claim of Value

Question 21

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

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Fallacy

Question 22

A statement made to endorce specific courses of action

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Claim of Policy

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A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

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Claim of Fact

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A type of Run-On on sentence in which the writer has failed to make any attempt either to link or seperate two indepent clauses, ultilizing neither puncuation, nor conjuctions

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Fused Sentence

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

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Loose Sentence

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

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Parallelism

Question 27

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

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Periodic Sentence

Question 28

The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage

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Ambiguity

Question 29

An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer aknowledges the validity of an opponent’s view

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Concession

Question 30

A group of words containing at least one pairing and predicate

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Clause