SLO Vocabulary Terms Flashcards
Evaluate
Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of something; to assess
Analysis
The process or result of identifying the part 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 words or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary.
Inference
A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances.
Irony
Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result.
Refutation
Countering of anticipated arguments.
Juxtaposition
Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for comparison and contrast.
Rhetoric
The art and study of effective writing and speech.
Diction
Specific word choices an author makes to persuade or to convey tone
Ex: “She began imitating his careful diction.”
Clause
A group of words containing at least one paired subject and predicate.
Phase
A group of words that don not contain at least one
paired subject and predicate.
Ethos
Mode of persuasion requiring speakers to establish their credibility, skill, or morality on a given subject to an intended audience.
Tone
The attitude of of the author toward the audience characters, subject or the work itself
Pathos
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
Logos
Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audience’s ability to distinguish,through discourse, the diffeerence between what is reasonable or unreasonable
Evidence
Proof coming from sources,fieldwork and research that validates any logical support of an argument.
Reasons
Statements of logic that offer support for an argument.
Claim
Any statements of belief that can be contested; argument.
comma splice
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.
Claim of value
A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral.
Claim of Fact
A statement made to verify the authenticity of something.
Fallacy
Rationales for claims that might seem reasonable, but are actually unsound- and usually false.
Claim of policy
a statement made to endorse a specific course of action.
Fused Sentence
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
Loose Sentence
A sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses
Periodic Sentence
A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is most completed until the final word.
Paralisim
The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words phrases or clauses.
Ambiguity
The present 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.
Arconomy to constructed response points.
Clear Complete Accurate Releteve Specific
How many pieces of evidence do I need for it constructed response.
You need a minimum of 2 pieces of evidence.
Do I need to include in text citations for my evidence in constructed responses
nope
What are the key element of a constructed responses.
- These 2. Context( 1-2 sentences) 3. Evidence #1 4. Analysis #1 (2-3 sentences) 5. Evidence #2 6. Analysis #2 7. Concluding sentence.
How many paragraphs is a constructed response
1 Paragraphs
The Most important thing to include in your thesis for your constructed response.
Answer the Prompt
Main Idea
The key information that the author wants you to know after reading.
Take the supporting detail and find what they have in common.
How to find the main idea.
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.
Connotation vs Denotation
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
Rhythm
A repeating pattern of sound based on patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Rhyme Scheme
It is the pattern of rhymes(syllbals that sound like) at the end of a line of a poem.
Enjambment
The continuation of a sentence or phase from one line of poetry to the next.
Stanza
They are like the paragraph of poetry that divide the poems lines.
Free Verse
A poetic style that doesn’t have a set meter or rhyme scheme.
Blank Verse
It is a poetry that does not rhyme, but follows a regular meter.
Sonnet
14 lines
Couplet
It is a unit of poetry containing two lines of verse that form a singular thought or idea.
