Vocabulary
Reading Selections
Art of Persuasion
A Way with Words
Taking a Position
100

A Rough Draft of your Essay.

What is an Outline?

100

A story about Helen Keller growing up with disabilities. 

What is The Story of My Life?

100

Something supporting a claim.  

What is evidence?

100

Language that does not have a literal meaning. 

What is Figurative Language?

100

Statement as if of fact rooted in emotion.

What is an Opinion?

200

Changing an argument to make it easier to refute.

What is a Straw Man Fallacy?

200

Speech given at the beginning of Obama's Presidency. 

What is Obama's Inaugural Speech?

200

Why someone or a group of people should choose to do something over a different option.

What is reasons?

200

Clues stated in a text used as evidence.

What is Context Clues?

200

A point of view.

What is Perspective?

300

Attacking a person instead of the argument they are making.

What is an ad hominem fallacy?

300

An interview about leaving the Olympics due to the errors of the Host Country. 

What is A Former Olympian's View?

300

Something someone states to make a point. 

What is Claim?

300

Words Chosen For Their Emotional Meaning

What is Connotative Language?

300

What a Writer writes

What is Author's Purpose?

400

A central idea of a text. 

What is a Thesis Statement?

400
A Prompt about the Stingray and it's properties. 

What is Venomous Ray?

400

Evidence to support a claim. 

What is proof?

400

Words used by specialists or certain fields. 

What is Technical Language?

400

How Someone Views an Idead

What is Interpretation?

500

An interesting sentence to get readers to continue reading. 

What is a hook?

500

A speech given Great Britain to encourage them to stay strong during WWII.  

What is Blood Tears Toil and Sweat?

500

Understandable reasoning in support of a claim. 

What is Sound Reasoning?

500

How something is stated or it's attitude.

What is Tone?

500

A form in which someone writes something.

What is Style?