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Academic Vocabulary
4th Six Weeks
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Appeal | In persuasive writing, using logical, ethical, or emotional arguments to evoke emotion and create a call to action |
| Argument | a main idea, often called a "claim" or "thesis statement," backed up with evidence that supports the idea |
| Bias | an inclination toward a particular judgement on a topic or issue. (Connotations can help create either positive or negative bias). |
| Concession | when you acknowledge or consider the opposing viewpoint, conceding something that has some merit. |
| Ethos | an element of argument and persuasion through which a speaker establishes their credibility and knowledge, as well as their good moral character |
| Logical Fallacy | common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument. |
| Logos | an element of argument and persuasion through the use of logic and reasoning in crafting a piece of persuasive writing or rhetoric |
| Overstatement | the action of expressing or stating something too strongly; exaggeration |
| Pathos | an element of argument and persuasion through which a speaker tries to convince an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response to an impassioned plea or a convincing story |
| Rebuttal | a literary technique in which a speaker or writer uses argument, and presents reasoning or evidence intended to undermine or weaken the claim of an opponent |
| Red Herring | a kind of fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue |
| Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques |
| Rhetorical Question | a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer |
| Straw Man | a fallacy that occurs when someone takes another person's argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme distortion, as if that is really the claim the first person is making |
| Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is |
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