Unit 2 Vocabulary

What is connotation?

• a neutral definition of a word

• the positive or negative feeling linked to a word

• when a writer persuades, informs, entertains

• words that have strong emotion that we use to prove a point

What is author's purpose?

• ethos, pathos, logos

• methods a writer uses in an argument to lead an audience to agree with them

• where information comes from

• when a writer persuade, informs, or entertains

What is bias

• favoring one side over another, typically in an unfair way

• where information comes from

• words that convey strong emotion to prove a point

• when a writer persuade, informs, or entertains

What is denotation?

• words that convey strong emotions that we use to prove a point

• a neutral definition of a word

• positive or negative feelings linked to a word

• index card that a person writes all the information about the sources used

What are loaded/charged words?

• the positive or negative feeling linked to a word

• a neutral definition of a word

• words that convey strong emotion that are used to prove a point

• a practice copy that will have more than one version

What are sources?

• can be supported, but cannot be proved true or false

• large changes that makes writing sound better

• the last page of an essay that lists sources

• where information comes from

What is a draft?

• the last page of an essay that lists sources

• A practice copy that will have more than one version

• large changes that make writing sound better

• small changes that make writing look better

What are source cards?

• can be supported, but cannot be proved true or false

• questions with obvious answers that are asked for effect

• methods a writer uses in an argument to lead an audience to agree with them

• index cards that a person writes all in the information they collected on a source

What is an opinion?

• can be supported, but cannot be proved true or false

• favoring one side over another, typically in an unfair way

• words that convey strong emotion to prove a point

• can be proved true or false

What does revise mean?

• a practice copy that will have more than one version

• small changes that make writing look better

• large changes that make writing sound better

• where information comes from