SLO Vocabulary Terms

Question 1

Evaluate

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Analysis

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

Question 3

Explicit

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Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text

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Connotation

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

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Irony

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

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Inference

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

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Tone

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

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Refutation

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Countering of anticipated arguments

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Juxtaposition

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Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for compairisom or contrast

Question 10

Rhetoric

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The art and study of effective writing and speech

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Diction

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Specific word choices an author makes to persuade or try to convey tone

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Ethos

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

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Pathos

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Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the various emotion of the audience (fear, inspiration, intidimation, idealism, anger, etc.)

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Logos

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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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Evidence

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

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Reason

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Statements of logic that offer support for an argument

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Comma Splice

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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.

Question 18

Claims

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Any statements of belief that can be contested; argument

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Phrase

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

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Clause

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

Question 21

Claim of Value

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A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

Question 22

Fallacy

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

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Claim of Policy

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A statement made to endorse specific courses of action

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Claim of Fact

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A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

Question 25

Fused sentence

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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.

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Loose Sentence

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A sentence structure is which a main clause is follwed by subordinate phrases and clauses.

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Parallelism

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

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Periodic Sentence

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

Question 29

Ambiguity

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The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage

Question 30

Concession

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

Question 31

Connotation

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-“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?”

Question 32

Denotation

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-dictionary association
-can be the same between two words, but have different feelings

Question 33

Test Taking Strategy 1 - Read the entire sentence of each answer

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Before picking your final answer, read through each answer thoroughly, assuring you’ve picked the right one.

Question 34

Test Taking Strategy 2 - Read the question at least TWO times and understand what the question is asking of you

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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.

Question 34

Test taking strategy 3 - Answer the easy questions first

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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.

Question 34

Test taking strategy 4 - Read the question before reading the text

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May find answers in the text to answer the questions. Look for the answers.

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Test Strategy 5 - Find The Answer In Your Head Before Looking at the Answer Options

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You will tend to find your initial match answer similar or matching one of the options.

Question 36

Test taking strategy 6 - Annotate the Passage

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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.

Question 37

Test taking strategy 7 - Use Context Clues

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using hints that the author provides to define difficult or challenging words

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Test taking strategy 8 - Eliminate answers you know are wrong

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Eliminating answer choices ensures you have a higher chance of getting the answer correct.

Question 39

Satire

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Using humor to evoke change. Can also be used to entertain or to persuade. Funny, but critiquing issues.

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Rhythm

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a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

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Rhythm Scheme

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the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

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Enjabment

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the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

Question 43

Stanza

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a “paragraph” of a poem

Question 44

Free Verse

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Question 45

Blank Verse

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verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter

Question 46

Sonnet

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a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line

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Couplet

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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

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Line Break

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the point at which two lines of text are split; the end of a line:

Question 49

Illusion

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a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses

Question 50

Effect of First-Person POV

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Limited, Brings readers closer to the character

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Effect of Second-Person POV

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allow the reader to immerse and live fully in the world of your story

Question 52

Effect of Thrid-Person POV

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access to a character’s inner thoughts and emotions, much in the same way that first-person narration does