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 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 or phrase suggest in addition to its dictionary meaning

Question 5

Phrase

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Irony

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Inference

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Refutation

Answer 8

Countering of anticipation arguments

Question 9

Juxtaposition

Answer 9

Placing one thing adjacent or another, especially for comparison and contrast

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

Ethos

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Pathos

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Logos

Answer 13

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 14

Evidence

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Comma Splice

Answer 15

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 16

Claims

Answer 16

Any statements of belief that can be contested; argument

Question 17

Claim of Value

Answer 17

A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

Question 18

Fallacy

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Claim of Policy

Answer 19

A statement made to endorse specific courses of action

Question 20

Clause

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Claim of Fact

Answer 21

A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

Question 22

Fused Sentence

Answer 22

A type of Run-On sentence in which the writer had failed to make any attempt either to link or separate two independent clauses, utilizing neither punctuation, nor conjunctions.

Question 23

Loose Sentence

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Ambiguity

Answer 24

The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage

Question 25

Concession

Answer 25

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