SLO Vocab Terms Flashcards
A judgement based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances.
Inference
Examine and judge carefully, to judge or determind the quality of something to assess
Evaluate
The process or result of identifying the parts if a whole and their relationship to one another
Analysis
Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text
Explicit
The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning
Connotation
Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result
Irony
The attitude of the author toward the audience , characters, subject, or the work itself
Tone
Countering of anticipated arguments
Refutation
Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for comparision and contrast
Juxtaposition
The art and study of effective writing and speech
Rhetoric
Specific word choices an author makes to persuade or to convey tone
Ex:”She began imitating his careful diction”
Diction
A group of words that do not contain at least one paired subject and predicate
Phrase
Mode of persuasion requiring speakers to establish their credibility, skill, or morality on a given subject to an intended audience
Ethos
Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the various emotions of the audience, including fear, inspiration, intimidation, idealism, anger, nostaligia, despair, optimism, etc.
Pathos
Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audience’s ability to distinguish, through discourse, the difference between what is reasonable or unreasonable
Logos
Proof coming from sources, fieldwork, and reasearch that validates any logical support of an argument
Evidence
Statements of logic that offer support for an argument
Reasons
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.
Comma Splice
Any statement of belief that can be contested; argument
Claims
A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral
Claim of Value
Rationales for claims that might seem reasonable, but are actually unsound-and usually false.
Fallacy
A statement made to endorce specific courses of action
Claim of Policy
A statement made to verify the authenticity of something
Claim of Fact
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
Fused Sentence
A sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses
Loose Sentence
The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Parallelism
A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word
Periodic Sentence
The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage
Ambiguity
An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer aknowledges the validity of an opponent’s view
Concession
A group of words containing at least one pairing and predicate
Clause
