SLO Vocabulary Terms Flashcards

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Evaluate

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

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Analysis

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

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Explicit

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Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual test.

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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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5
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Irony

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

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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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9
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Juxtaposition

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

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10
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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 to convey tone.

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Clause

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

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13
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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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14
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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 emotions of the audience, including fear, inspiration, intimidation, idealism, anger, nostalgia, despair, optimism, etc.

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