SLO Vocabulary Terms

Question 1

Evaluate

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Analysis

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Explicit

Answer 3

Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.

Question 4

Connotation

Answer 4

The range of associations that a words or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary.

Question 5

Inference

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Irony

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Refutation

Answer 7

Countering of anticipated arguments.

Question 8

Juxtaposition

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Rhetoric

Answer 9

The art and study of effective writing and speech.

Question 10

Diction

Answer 10

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

Ex: “She began imitating his careful diction.”

Question 11

Clause

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Phase

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Ethos

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Tone

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Pathos

Answer 15

Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the various emotion of the audience, including fear, inspiration, intimidation, idealism, anger, nostalgia, despair, optimism,e.t.c

Question 16

Logos

Answer 16

Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audience’s ability to distinguish,through discourse, the diffeerence between what is reasonable or unreasonable

Question 17

Evidence

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Reasons

Answer 18

Statements of logic that offer support for an argument.

Question 19

Claim

Answer 19

Any statements of belief that can be contested; argument.

Question 20

comma splice

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Claim of value

Answer 21

A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral.

Question 22

Claim of Fact

Answer 22

A statement made to verify the authenticity of something.

Question 23

Fallacy

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Claim of policy

Answer 24

a statement made to endorse a specific course of action.

Question 25

Fused Sentence

Answer 25

A type of Run-On sentence in which the writer has failed to make any attempt either to like separate two independent clauses, utilizing neither punctuation, nor conjunction

Question 26

Loose Sentence

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Periodic Sentence

Answer 27

A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is most completed until the final word.

Question 28

Paralisim

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Ambiguity

Answer 29

The present of two or more possible meanings in any passage.

Question 30

Concession

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Arconomy to constructed response points.

Answer 31

Clear Complete Accurate Releteve Specific

Question 32

How many pieces of evidence do I need for it constructed response.

Answer 32

You need a minimum of 2 pieces of evidence.

Question 33

Do I need to include in text citations for my evidence in constructed responses

Answer 33

nope

Question 34

What are the key element of a constructed responses.

Answer 34

1. These 2. Context( 1-2 sentences) 3. Evidence #1 4. Analysis #1 (2-3 sentences) 5. Evidence #2 6. Analysis #2 7. Concluding sentence.

Question 35

How many paragraphs is a constructed response

Answer 35

1 Paragraphs

Question 36

The Most important thing to include in your thesis for your constructed response.

Answer 36

Answer the Prompt

Question 37

Main Idea

Answer 37

The key information that the author wants you to know after reading.
Take the supporting detail and find what they have in common.

Question 38

How to find the main idea.

Answer 38

Find the topic first ask yourself questions about what the author is trying to teach you and what the author is about.

Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph, pay attention to repeating detail, look for transitions that show relationship and reversal, Think of a single sentence that can summarize the presented ideas, Think of the main idea yourself first.

Question 39

Connotation vs Denotation

Answer 39

Connotation is the way culture flows around a word. It is based on personal value each person has different connections to words.
The way the word makes you feel.
What is the Author trying to imply?
How do the words propel the tone or theme?
Use the connotation of words to find tone?

Denotation is the dictionary definition. WHat the

Question 40

Rhythm

Answer 40

A repeating pattern of sound based on patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Question 41

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 41

It is the pattern of rhymes(syllbals that sound like) at the end of a line of a poem.

Question 42

Enjambment

Answer 42

The continuation of a sentence or phase from one line of poetry to the next.

Question 43

Stanza

Answer 43

They are like the paragraph of poetry that divide the poems lines.

Question 44

Free Verse

Answer 44

A poetic style that doesn’t have a set meter or rhyme scheme.

Question 45

Blank Verse

Answer 45

It is a poetry that does not rhyme, but follows a regular meter.

Question 46

Sonnet

Answer 46

14 lines

Question 47

Couplet

Answer 47

It is a unit of poetry containing two lines of verse that form a singular thought or idea.