English SLO Vocab

Question 1

Connotation

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Irony

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Evaluate

Answer 3

Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine significance, worth, or quality of something; asses

Question 4

Analysis

Answer 4

the process or result of identifying the pats of a whole and their relationship to one another

Question 5

Explicit

Answer 5

Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text

Question 6

Inference

Answer 6

A judgement 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, characters, subject or the work itself

Question 8

Juxtaposition

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Rhetoric

Answer 9

The art and study of effective writing and speech

Question 10

Diction

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Clause

Answer 11

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

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 persuasion requiring speaker to establish their credibility, skill, or morality on a given subject to an untended audience

Question 14

Pathos

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

Question 15

Reasons

Answer 15

Statements of logic that offer support for an argument

Question 16

Comma Splice

Answer 16

A type of Run-On 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 convention

Question 17

Evidence

Answer 17

Proof coming from sources, fieldwork, and research that validates any logical support of an argument

Question 18

Claims

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Any statements or belief that can be contested; argument

Question 19

Claim of Value

Answer 19

A statement made to show that something is moral or immoral

Question 20

Logos

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Refutation

Answer 21

Countering of anticipated arguments

Question 22

Fallacy

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Claim of Policy

Answer 23

A statement made to endorse specific courses of action

Question 24

Claim of Fact

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A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

Question 25

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 conjunction

Question 26

Loose Sentence

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

Question 27

Parallelism

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

Ambiguity

Answer 29

The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage

Question 30

Concession

Answer 30

An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of the opponents point