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

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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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Irony

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INCONGRUITY between the actual result of a 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 comparison and contrast

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Rhetoric

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The art and STUDY of effective WRITING and SPEECH

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Clause

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A group of words CONTAINING at least ONE paired subject predicate

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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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Connoation

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

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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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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, fieldwork, and research that validates any LOGICAL SUPPORT of an argument

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Reasons

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Statements of LOGIC that offer SUPPORT for an argument

Question 18

Comma Splice

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

Question 19

Claims

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Any statements of belief that can be contested; argument

Question 20

Claim of Value

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A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

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Claim of Fact

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A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

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Claim of Policy

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A Statement made to endorse specific courses of action (Revolution)

Question 23

Fused Sentence

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A type of Run-On sentence in which the writer has failed to make any attempt 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 in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clause

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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 a suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word

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Ambiguity

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The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage

Question 28

Concession

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