Unit 1
What is evidence?
Quotations that are the exact words that are found within a work and/or Paraphrases that are restatements of the original work
What is rhetoric?
The art of persuasion.
What is Etymology?
Information that indicates the word’s origin—the history of how it came to be part of the English language.
What is antithesis?
It is when authors juxtapose words or ideas.
What are compound-complex sentences?
They are sentences that have two or more independent clauses and a minimum of one dependent clause.
What are the key points in the rhetorical triangle?
Message, Writer/speaker, and audience
What is an idiom?
an expression/phrase that cannot be taken literally.
What are the parts of a dictionary?
The thesaurus and glossary, along with the actual definition entries.
What is deductive reasoning?
the method of reasoning that is used to make a conclusion and prove an argument.
What is a United States Seminal text?
the foundational document that provides readers with information that has some kind of historical impact or significance regarding the formation and development of the United States.
Persuasion does not actually involve an arguments, pertains to how people think/act. Arguments ALWAYS involve persuasions, focuses on logic.
What are the types of vocabulary?
Academic, Domain-Specific, and Technical.
What are dependent clauses?
That are things that have their own subjects and verbs, but because they modify some part of the sentence.
What is candor?
Frankness and/or honesty.
What is the chain of legal reasoning?
It is the courts formal process and system of reasoning.
What are the figures of speech?
What is Jargon?
Certain terms that are used in a specific specialty, a type of technical vocab.
What is ethos?
Ethos is the attempt to persuade the audience by establishing themselves as being creditable.
What is irony?
It is when authors state the opposite of what they mean.
What are the United States constitutional principals?
They are the founding values and beliefs set forth by the US Constitution.
What is parallel structure?
It is the repeating of words in a particular, concise order.
What does succinct mean?
Something that is expressed without unnecessary words; brief and compact
What is connotation?
It is the emotion associations that a word carries, which adds a layer of meaning beyond its denotation.
What are the types of reasoning?
They are:inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, analogical reasoning, and causal reasoning.
What does the chain of reasoning consist of?
The issue, rule, facts, analysis, and conclusion.