Words 31-40

Question 1

Understatement

Answer 1

For example, you win 10 million dollars in the lottery; when you tell a news reporter “I am delighted” you are making a understatement. Similarly, suppose a team loses to its opponent 50 to 0 in a soccer match and the captain of the team says in the post-match ceremony “We did not do well,” it is an understatement because he is trying to decrease the intensity of the loss. It is the opposite of a hyperbole or overstatement

Question 2

Colorful Diction

Answer 2

Diction is you conscious choice of words as a writer. It stands to reason that “colorful diction” is the very purposeful word choice that will serve to accentuate meaning and tone

Question 3

Counterargument

Answer 3

an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument. when writing in the argumentation mode. it is MANDATORY that the writer acknowledge the other side to their argument. It is part of the refutation of someone else’s claim to support your own “side” of the argument that you are making

Question 4

Claim

Answer 4

If somebody gives an argument to support their position it is called making a claim. Different reasons are usually presented to prove why a certain point should be accepted as logical

Question 5

Evidence

Answer 5

type of literary device that appears in different categories of essays and thesis in the form of paraphrase and quotations. It is presented to persuade the readers and used with powerful arguments in the text or essays in rhetoric when a person makes a claim or presents an argument, they need to present evidence in support of their claim or argument

Question 6

Warrant

Answer 6

the glue that holds an argument together. it links the evidence to the claim. It says something like “This evidence supports the claim because…” and it is always in a similar form that is more of a statement of support of WHY your evidence supports your assertion/claim

Question 7

Fallacy

Answer 7

erroneous argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical contention. There are many fallacy examples that we can find in everyday conversations

Question 8

Logical Fallacy

Answer 8

in argumentation, a formal fallacy (also called deductive fallacy) is a pattern of reasoning/thinking rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system, for example propositional logic. An argument that is formally fallacious is always considered wrong

Question 9

Prophecy

Answer 9

many believe that a prediction and a prophecy are the same but they are mistaken. It is true that both “forecast” the future but there is a significant difference. A prophecy has all the elements of a prediction except the element of time. Without the element of time a prophecy is hard to determine- it is more of a religious connotation since there is an element of uncertainty about time

Question 10

Prediction

Answer 10

forecast made by those who calculate the parameters of the subject involved after evaluating the odds they can predict the future ex. weather forecast limited to its time limit