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Evaluate

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

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Analysis

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The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another

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Explicit

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Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.

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Connotation

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

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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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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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Phrase

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

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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 used 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.

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Comma splice

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A type of Run-On Sentence in which the writer as erroneously (randomly) paced only a comma between two independent clauses, resulting in a failure to link the two according to grammatical convention.

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Claims

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Any statements of belief that can be contested; argument.

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Diction

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

ex - She began imitating his careful diction

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Claim of Value

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

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Fallacy

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

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Claim of Policy

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A statement made to endorse specific course of action.

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Claim of Fact

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A statement made to verify the authenticity of something.

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Fused sentence

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a type of run on sentence in which the writer has failed to make any attempt either to 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 clauses.

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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 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.

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Concession

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

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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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Clause

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

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Satire

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A literacy approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.

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Convention

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An accepted manner, model, or tradition used to create uniformity.

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Deductive Reasoning

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Argument in which general conclusions are drawn from specific facts.

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Prose

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Ordinary form of written language.

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Colloquial

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Ordinary language, vernacular.

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Syntax

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The order and structure of a sentence

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Inductive Reasoning

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Argument in which specific statements/conclusions are drawn from general principles: movement from general to specific

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Run-on Sentence

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Two or more complete sentences joined by any means going against grammatical conventions.

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Modifier

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Any adjectives, adverbs, phrases, and relative clauses used to alter the meaning of particular words or phrases within a sentence.