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 identiying the parts 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 word of phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Inference

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Tone

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Refutation

Answer 8

Countering of anticipated arguments

Question 9

Juxtaposition

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Rhetoric

Answer 10

The art and study of effective writing and speech

Question 11

Diction

Answer 11

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

Ex: “She began imitating his careful diction”

Question 12

Clause

Answer 12

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

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Phrase

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Ethos

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Pathos

Answer 15

Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the various emotions of the audience, including fear, inspiration, imitidation, idealism, anger, nostalgia, despair, optimism, etc

Question 16

Lagos

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Evidence

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

Question 18

Reasons

Answer 18

Statements of logic that offer support for an argument

Question 19

Comma Splice

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Claims

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Any statementd s of belief that can be contested; argument

Question 21

Fallacy

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Rationales for clams that night seen reasonable, but are actually unsound-and usually false

Question 22

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 24

Claims of Value

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A statement made to show that something is normal or immoral

Question 25

Fused Sentence

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

Question 26

Paralleism

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

Question 27

Loose Sentence

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

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Periodic Setence

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Along and frequently involved sentence marked by suspended syntax in which the sense is not completed until the final word

Question 29

Ambiguity

Answer 29

The presence 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

Acronym for Constructed Response Rubric Requirements

Answer 31

Clear, Complete, Accurate, Relevant, Specific

Question 32

How many minimum pieces of evidence do I need to include in each constructed response?

Answer 32

2!!! TWO!!!

Question 33

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

Answer 33

No

Question 34

What are the key elements of a constructed response?

Answer 34

1. Thesis
2. Context (1-2 Sentence)
3. Evidence #1
4. Analysis #1 (2-3 Sentence)
5. Evidence #2
6. Analysis #2
7. Conclusion

Question 35

How many paragraphs is a constructed response?

Answer 35

One

Question 36

What is the most important thing in perfecting your response?

Answer 36

Answer the pompt

Question 37

Main idea

Answer 37

Thee key information that the author wants you to know after reading

Question 38

How to find the main idea?

Answer 38

Find supporting details and what they have in common
Read the topic first
Look for a repeated ideas
Test the main idea
Find the topic sentence and then the details
Pay attention to the idea that is repeated throughout the text
Looks for explicit statement
Answer the question first, then look at answer choices