SLO Vocabulary Terms Flashcards
Evaluate
Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the signifigance, 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
Connotation
The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning
Irony
Incongruity between the actual result of the sequence of events 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
Tone
The attitude of the author toward the audience, characters, subject or the work itself.
Refutation
Countering of anticipated arguments
Juxtaposition
Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for compairisom or contrast
Rhetoric
The art and study of effective writing and speech
Diction
Specific word choices an author makes to persuade or try to convey tone
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 emotion of the audience (fear, inspiration, intidimation, idealism, anger, etc.)
Logos
Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audience’s ability to distinguish, through discourse, the difference between what is reasonable or unreasonable
Evidence
Proof coming from sources, feildwork and research that validates any logical support of an argument.
Reason
Statements of logic that offer support for an argument
Comma Splice
A type of run-on sentence in which the writer has erreneosly places only a comma between two idependent clauses, resulting in a failure to link the two according to gramatical convention.
Claims
Any statements of belief that can be contested; argument
Phrase
A group of words that do not contain at least one paired subject and predicate
Clause
A group of words containing at least one paired subject and predicate
Claim of Value
A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral
Fallacy
Rationales 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 sentenc in which the writer has failed to make any attempt to either link or separate two independent clauses, utilizing neither punctuation nor conjunctions.
Loose Sentence
A sentence structure is which a main clause is follwed by subordinate phrases and clauses.
Parallelism
The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Periodic Sentence
A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax in which the sense is not completed until the final word.
Ambiguity
The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage
Concession
An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent’s point
Connotation
-“feeling” associations
-The way that culture flows around a word
-can be more that just positive or negative
-personal connections for the words
-Author picks the words to covey the theme/tone
-ask yourself “how do the words make you feel?, what is the author trying to imply?”
Denotation
-dictionary association
-can be the same between two words, but have different feelings
Test Taking Strategy 1 - Read the entire sentence of each answer
Before picking your final answer, read through each answer thoroughly, assuring you’ve picked the right one.
Test Taking Strategy 2 - Read the question at least TWO times and understand what the question is asking of you
To fully understand the question, you must read it multiple times to ensure you know the whole idea of what the question is asking you. By doing this, you will know what the question is asking and be able to answer it to your fullest ability.
Test taking strategy 3 - Answer the easy questions first
Start with the easy questions first. These are questions you immediately know the answers to, or can answer in a short amount of time, confidently. Save the difficult ones for later, you can spend the remaining time on them.
Test taking strategy 4 - Read the question before reading the text
May find answers in the text to answer the questions. Look for the answers.
Test Strategy 5 - Find The Answer In Your Head Before Looking at the Answer Options
You will tend to find your initial match answer similar or matching one of the options.
Test taking strategy 6 - Annotate the Passage
Highlight, write in the margins, circle key words, making notes, and mark important information in the passage.
Improve comprehension and facilitates quicker reference during question answering.
Test taking strategy 7 - Use Context Clues
using hints that the author provides to define difficult or challenging words
Test taking strategy 8 - Eliminate answers you know are wrong
Eliminating answer choices ensures you have a higher chance of getting the answer correct.
Satire
Using humor to evoke change. Can also be used to entertain or to persuade. Funny, but critiquing issues.
Rhythm
a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound
Rhythm Scheme
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
Enjabment
the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
Stanza
a “paragraph” of a poem
Free Verse
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Blank Verse
verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line
Couplet
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
Line Break
the point at which two lines of text are split; the end of a line:
Illusion
a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses
Effect of First-Person POV
Limited, Brings readers closer to the character
Effect of Second-Person POV
allow the reader to immerse and live fully in the world of your story
Effect of Thrid-Person POV
access to a character’s inner thoughts and emotions, much in the same way that first-person narration does
