Unit 1
To persuade into erroneous thinking; mislead
What is delude?
To make more severe; to intensify
What is Exacerbate?
State of currently occupying an office.
What is Incumbency?
A state of society in which diverse groups participate.
What is Pluralism?
An incorrect term used to describe or designate something.
What is a Misnomer?
Key points authors make and want you to remember most.
What is a Central Idea?
The way words, phrases, and sentences are arranged to demonstrate an author’s meaning, purpose, and style most effectively.
What is Syntax?
The author’s attempt to persuade an audience by presenting arguments that focus on and bring about universally held emotions, beliefs, or experiences. It can also be referred to as an appeal to emotion.
What is appeal to Pathos?
An indirect reference to a person, object, event, or literary work that is widely recognized.
What is an Allusion?
The act of influencing those who make decisions on law or public policy in order to improve society, further equality, or advance the cause of an organization or group of people.
What is Advocacy?
Facts, definitions, quotations, concrete details, and statistics or data.
What is Types of Evidence?
An effective way to help you understand and evaluate the effectiveness of your evidence for your particular audience.
What is taking Notes?
Is a comparison between two things, used typically for clarification or explanation.
What is an Analogy?
External support for your claim and thesis statement. It is used in informational, persuasive, and argumentative texts.
What is Evidence?
Look at sentences, words, and phrases you have included in both the introduction and the conclusion. Ensure that the flow is smooth from the beginning to the end of each.
What is Transitional Content?
Two actions you perform when you look for meaning in informational text.
What are Determine and Discover?
Explaining or clarifying one item in terms of another on a nonliteral level.
What is a use of Figurative Language?
Being able to determine whether or not a source is accurate, relevant, and or credible.
What is Evaluating Sources?
Being able to describe scenes in vivid detail using one or more of the five senses.
What is the use of imagery?
The primary statement that is to be proved through the presentation of an argument.
What is the Claim?
Writing using professional, formal, neutral, objective tones.
What is Informational and Explanatory texts?
List of information you've gathered throughout your research using quotes and or paraphrases to give credit.
What is a works cited page?
Ensuring the information you present is clear and focused, with a smooth and logical flow, and also interests and engages your readers.
What is Revising for an Audience?
Use when you are arguing the causes of a certain situation (why the situation has happened) or arguing the effects of a certain situation (what the results or effects of the situation are).
What is Cause and Effect Thesis statement?
Step of the writing process that includes correcting errors in spelling, grammar, usage, and punctuation.
What is Editing?