Argument Terms
Argument Writing
Definitions and Facts
Writing and Random
English 10 2025
100

Information that has words that appeal to your emotions.

 What is pathos?

100

What helps organize your writing to smoothly connect one idea to another. 

What are transitions?

100

Grab the reader's attention. 

What is a hook?

100

The first sentence in your body paragraph, and in an argument essay, one of the reasons that supports your argument.

What is a topic sentence?

100

The word that means threatening.

What is ominous?

200

An appeal where the supporting evidence is facts and statistics.

What is logos?

200

How should any essay open?

What is the hook?

200

An appeal to credibility or ethics.

What is ethos?

200

These should be included in your claim/thesis for an argument essay as a map for your audience to follow.

What are reasons?

200

Ms. Britton's first name.

What is Jill?

300

An appeal where the supporting evidence is predicated upon the speaker's credibility or ethics.

What is an Ethos?

300

The end of an argument essay should include this to motivate your audience to behave or think differently after reading.

What is a Call to Action?

300

The ancient Greek who identified rhetorical appeals thousands of years ago.

Who is Aristotle?

300
The name of Ms. Britton's dog.

What is Izzy?

300

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

What is connotation?

400

The paragraph where the writer concedes to the opposing argument.

What is the Counterclaim?

400

Every argument essay needs this to convey your position on the argument.

What is the claim or thesis?

400

The verb that means to admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it. It's part your counterclaim.

What is concede?

400

The number of years Ms. Britton has been teaching in Smithtown.

What is 22?

400

The author of Lord of the Flies.

Who is William Golding?

500

Evidence that explains the reason why the opposing is incorrect.

What is refutation or rebuttal?

500

The term used to classify logos, ethos, and pathos.

What are rhetorical appeals?

500

The verb that means to prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove. 

What is to refute?

500

It must be done to avoid plagiarism and give credit to sources.

What is cite your sources?

500
The strategy used to identify significant passages in literature.

What is Notice and Note?