Vocab

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 indentifying 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 suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning

Question 5

irony

Answer 5

incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of evens and the unexpected result

Question 6

inference

Answer 6

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

Question 7

tone

Answer 7

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

Question 8

refutation

Answer 8

countering of anticipated arguments

Question 9

juxtaposition

Answer 9

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

Question 10

rhetoric

Answer 10

the art and study of effective writing speech

Question 11

diction

Answer 11

specific word choices in an author makes to persuade or to convey tone

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 the persuasion requiring speakers to establish their creditability, skill, or morality on a given subject to an intended audience

Question 14

pathos

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Logos

Answer 15

Mode of persuasion speakers use when appealing to the audience ability to distinguish, through discourse the difference between what is reasonable to unreasonable.

Question 16

evidence

Answer 16

proof coming from source, fieldwork and research that validates any logical support of an argument

Question 17

reasons

Answer 17

statement of logic that offer support for an argument

Question 18

comma split

Answer 18

a type of run of 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 conventions

Question 19

claims

Answer 19

any statement or belief that can be contested

Question 20

claim of value

Answer 20

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

Question 21

fallacy

Answer 21

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

Question 22

claims of policy

Answer 22

a statement made to endorse specific courses of action

Question 23

Claims of Fact

Answer 23

A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

Question 24

fused sentences

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

parallelism

Answer 25

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

Question 26

loose sentence

Answer 26

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

Question 27

periodic sentence

Answer 27

a long and frequently involved sentence marked by 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 acknowledge the validity of an opponent’s point