SLO Vocabulary Terms

Question 1

Evaluate

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Analysis

Answer 2

The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationship 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 or 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 judgement based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. Conclusion based on facts or circumstances.

Question 7

Tone

Answer 7

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

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 words choices an author makes to persuade or to convey tone.

Question 11

Clause

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Phrase

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Ethos

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Pathos

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Evidence

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Reasons

Answer 16

Statements of logic that offer support for an argument.

Question 17

Comma Splice

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Claims

Answer 18

Any statements of belief that can be contested; argument.

Question 19

Claims of value

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Logos

Answer 20

Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audiences ability to distinguish through the difference between what is reasonable or unreasonable.

Question 21

Fallacy

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Claim of Policy

Answer 22

A statement made to endorse specific courses of action.

Question 23

Claim of Fact

Answer 23

A statement made to verify the authenticity.

Question 24

Refutation

Answer 24

Countering of anticipated argumentd.

Question 25

Fused Sentence

Answer 25

A type of Run-On sentence in which the writer has failed to make any attempt to either link or separate two independent clauses, utilizing neither punctuation no conjunctions.

Question 26

Parallelism

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Periodic Sentence

Answer 27

A long frequently involved sentence, marked bu suspended syntax in which the sense is not completed until the final word.

Question 28

Ambiguity

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Concession

Answer 29

An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of the opponents point.

Question 30

Loose sentence

Answer 30

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