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 parts of a whole and their relationships with one another.
Explicit
Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.
Connotation
The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning.
Irony
Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result.
Inference
A judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statements. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances.
Refutation
Countering of anticipated arguments.
Juxtaposition
Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for comparison and contrast.
Diction
Specific word choices an author makes to persuade or to convey tone.
Phrase
A group of words that do 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.
Pathos
Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the various emotions of the audience, including fear, inspiration, intimidation, idealism, anger, nostalgia, despair, optimism, etc.
Logos
Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audience’s ability to distinguish through discourse, the difference between what is reasonable or unreasonable.
Evidence
Proof coming from sources, fieldwork, and research that validates any logical support of an argument.
Reasons
Statements or logic that offer support for an argument.
Claim of Policy
A statement made to endorse specific courses of action.
Claim of Fact
A statement made to verify the authenticity of something.
Parallelism
The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
Periodic Sentence
A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not complete until the final word.
Ambiguity
The presence of two or more possible meanings in any presence.
Concession
An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent’s point.
