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Grammar
Inference/Rhetoric
Learning in the Brain
100

Discern

To recognize or understand something that is not obvious.

100

Plausible

Believable or reasonable, though not proven.

100

Is this an example of inference?


He is preparing extra notes anonymously to leave for his struggling lab partner. Sam.

Yes.

100

Cognitive Brain

The part of the brain that helps you think clearly, Make good decisions and is the thinking part of the brain/frontal lobe.

200

Implicit

Implied or understood without being directly stated.

200

Subjective

Based on personal feelings or opinions rather than facts.

200

Semicolon

A character to use to join sentences without using a conjunction/fanboys.

200

This rhetoric technique relies on credibility and the speaker/author's strong moral character.

They rely on ethos, logos and pathos.

200

This lobe is where judgement and logic is generated.

Frontal Lobe

300

Explicit

Stated clearly and directly, leaving no room for confusion

300

Objective

Based on facts, not influenced by personal feelings.

300

An independent clause joined with an independent clause by a coordination conjunction.

A complex sentence.

300

Pathos

Emotions

300

This lobe generated our sense of well-being and the fight, flight or freeze response.

Temporal Lobe

400

Connotation

The feeling or idea a word suggests beyond its literal meaning.

400

Rhetoric

The art of using language effectively to persuade.

400

Logos

Logic

400

Adolesence

The time in your life when your brain starts to fully develop.

500

Denotation

The literal, dictionary definition of a word.

500

Ambiguous

Open to more than one interpretation; unclear.

500

What part of the brain develops between the ages of 10 and 25?

Frontal Lobe.

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