Testing Vocab
This is information in a text used to back up the main point.
What is text evidence?
This is when two or more items are compared using like or as.
What is a simile?
This is a common device typically found at the end of lines in a poem using words with similar sounds.
What is a rhyme?
This is the argument of the essay.
What is the assertion, claim, or thesis?
This is how an author writes. It concerns the level of formality.
What is style?
This is when you are asked to explain the similarities and differences between two or more texts.
What is compare and contrast?
This is an exaggerated statement or claim.
What is a hyperbole?
This is the voice of the poem.
Who is the speaker?
This is when the author uses facts, statistics, numbers, etc. to support the argument.
What is logos?
This is the author's attitude toward a topic, the opposition, or the audience.
What is tone?
This is when sensory details are employed to create a vivid picture in the reader's mind.
What is describe?
This is giving human characteristics to nonhumans.
What is personification?
This is the surface level meaning of the poem.
What is manifest content?
This is when the author carefully selects specific word choice to illicit an emotional responses from the reader.
What is pathos?
This is the author's position on a topic.
What is perspective?
This is when responses must sift through all the pieces of the text using explicit and implied information to explain how it all connects together.
What is analyze?
This is a set expression or phrase common to a specific language or region (i.e. piece of cake).
What is an idiom?
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This is when an author refers to an authority on the subject to support the argument.
What is ethos?
This is why the author is writing (to inform, persuade, or entertain).
What is purpose?
This is a conclusion drawn from the text through careful reasoning of what is directly stated or implied.
What is an inference?
This is when two contradictory words are used in conjunction (i.e. jumbo shrimp, falsely true).
What is an oxymoron?
This is the hidden meaning of the poem.
What is latent content?
These are the advanced argument terms used to describe the careful crafting of an argument (name three of the five).
What are establishing, illustrating, authorizing, countering, and extending?
This is how everything is connected: the argument, the evidence, the opinions of others, etc. It not only explains why a source is important, it explains how they are relevant to the entire issue.
What is context?