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 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 definition.

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Refutation

Answer 6

Countering the anticipated arguments.

Question 7

Juxtaposition

Answer 7

Placing one thing adjacent to another. especially for comparison and contrast.

Question 8

Inference

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Rhetoric

Answer 9

The art and study of effective writing and speech.

Question 10

Diction

Answer 10

Specific word choices that an author makes to persuade or to convey tone.

Question 11

Clause

Answer 11

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

Question 12

phrase

Answer 12

A group of words that so not contain at least one paired subjects and a predicate.

Question 13

Ethos

Answer 13

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

Question 14

comma splice

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Claims

Answer 15

Any statement of belief that can be contested; argument

Question 16

claim of value

Answer 16

A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

Question 17

Fallacy

Answer 17

Rationales for claims that might seem unreasonable, but are actually unsound, and usually false

Question 19

claim of policy

Answer 19

a statement made to endorse specific course of action.

Question 20

claim of fact

Answer 20

A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

Question 21

parallelism

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Periodic Sentence

Answer 22

A long frequently involved sentence, marked by suspense syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word

Question 23

ambiguity

Answer 23

the presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage

Question 24

concession

Answer 24

an argument strategy by which a speaker it writer acknowledge the validity of an opponent’s point