Unit 1
This vocab word is defined as keenness of perception; shrewdness.
What is acumen?
This vocab word is defined as appearing to be illogical or contradictory, but potentially true.
What is paradoxical?
This vocab word is defined as state of being always in existence or present.
What is omnipresence?
This vocab word is defined as to passively accept or agree without arguing or protest.
What is acquience?
This vocab word is defined as in a way that shows a lack of mercy or disregard of risk.
What is wantonly?
This reading skill occurs when meaning is unclear or uncertain, or multiple interpretations are possible.
What is Ambiguity?
This is known as a relationship among three key components: the message, the writer/speaker (author), and the audience.
What is rhetorical triangle?
This is defined as when the author emphasizes his or her own credibility to convince the audience of the claim.
What is the appeal to ethos?
This word literally means “opposite,” and in rhetoric, antithesis describes the rhetorical feature of placing extreme opposites in close proximity, usually within the same sentence.
What is Antithesis?
This word defined as the kind of logic and reasoning applied in all court cases and in some seminal documents, which are documents of historical and literary significance
What is legal reasoning?
To do this you must look at the evidence's relevance, sufficiency, and validity in relation to its central ideas.
What is examining evidence?
This type of sentence comes at the end of an introduction paragraph.
What is thesis statement?
When you do this you must consider how you might be able to refine the essay’s clarity, focus, and flow.
What is revising your essay?
This word is defined as claims that run counter—or in the opposite direction—to your stated position on the issue.
What is counterclaims?
This word is defined as is the way you arrange your words within each sentence, with each sentence being one of four types: simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
What is Syntax?
Determine the central idea of the text below:
Autistics children are misunderstood. Most people think being autistic means you are stupid when in reality most autistic kids are highly intelligent. Because of the way people think most autistics kids are set aside and separated from society. I think it is time for people to understand autism and the children who have it.
What is Autistic children are misunderstood?
Read the excerpt and determine the type of tone that is being used:
How do you teach a child right from wrong without being too tough or slipping into abuse? Who among us has not raised our voice—O.K., screamed—while disciplining our children?
What is inclusive tone?
Determine the type of rhetorical appeal that is used in the excerpt below:
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it—we mean to lead it.
What is the appeal to pathos?
This word is a rhetorical device where authors say less than what they mean, so that their words contrast with reality.
What is Understatement?
True or False:
The Supreme Court wrongfully used legal reasoning when dealing with the Riley V. California.
What is False?
Read the paragraph and find the irrelevant sentence:
On a hot summer day try and keep cool. You can go for a swim or you can simply stay in doors away from the heat. You can also go to the store to buy groceries and also you can check your mail. Make sure you drink plenty of water so you do not get dehydrated.
What is You can also go to the store to buy groceries and also you can check your mail?
Read the excerpt and determine the thesis statement:
Happiness can be defined as the state of being happy. Thomas Jefferson believed that happiness was an unalienable right that God has given us to pursue and achieve. Jefferson believed the English government was hindering this right and wrote in the Declaration of Independence how it hindered the pursuit of happiness. The English government hindered the pursuit of happiness by forcing Taxation Acts on the colonists, forcing colonists to house British soldiers, and by destroying towns and life's in the colonies.
What is The English government hindered the pursuit of happiness by forcing Taxation Acts on the colonists, forcing colonists to house British soldiers, and by destroying towns and life's in the colonies?
The sentence below is an example of what figurative language:
Memory is a muscle: The more you use it, the stronger it gets.
What is a metaphor?
True or False:
You must use counterclaims to your advantage even though counterclaims tend to be a restatement of you claim made in your thesis statement.
What is False?
True of False:
Your tone of an argumentative essay must be formal with no emotional or bias within the text.
What is True?