SLO Vocabulary Terms

Question 1

Evaluate

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Analysis

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Refutation

Answer 3

Countering of anticipated arguments

Question 4

Juxtaposition

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Phrase

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Ethos

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Logos

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Evidence

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Comma Splice

Answer 9

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 10

Claim of Policy

Answer 10

A statement made to endorse specific courses of action

Question 11

Explicit

Answer 11

Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.

Question 12

Connotation

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Irony

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Inference

Question 15

Tone

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Rhetoric

Answer 16

The art and effective writing and speech

Question 17

Diction

Answer 17

Specific word choices an author makes to persuade or convey tone
Ex: “She began imitating his careful diction.”

Question 18

Claim of fact

Answer 18

A statement made to verify the authenticity of something

Question 19

Clause

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Pathos

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Reasons

Answer 21

Statements of logic that offer support for an argument.

Question 22

Claims

Answer 22

Any statements of belief that can be contested; argument

Question 23

Claim of value

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Fallacy

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Fused Sentance

Answer 25

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 26

Parallelism

Answer 26

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

Amiguity

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 acknowledges the validity of an opponent's point