Vocab Week 2

Diction

• a mistaken belief, especially one based on an unsound argument

• the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

• faulty or mistaken logic

• an appeal to ethics and credibility

• stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt

fallacy

• a mistaken belief, especially one based on an unsound argument

• the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

• faulty or mistaken logic

• an appeal to ethics and credibility

• stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt

ethos

• a mistaken belief, especially one based on an unsound argument

• the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

• faulty or mistaken logic

• an appeal to ethics and credibility

• stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt

fallacious reasoning

• a mistaken belief, especially one based on an unsound argument

• the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

• faulty or mistaken logic

• an appeal to ethics and credibility

• stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt

explicit

• a mistaken belief, especially one based on an unsound argument

• the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

• faulty or mistaken logic

• an appeal to ethics and credibility

• stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt

a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work

• annotation

• argument

• audience

• central idea

• citation

the main idea of a writing; the point the author wants you to remember most

• annotation

• argument

• audience

• central idea

• citation

the quality of being trusted and believed in

• claim

• connotative

• counterclaim

• credibility

• denotative

the explicit or direct meaning of a word

• claim

• connotative

• counterclaim

• credibility

• denotative

signifying or suggestive of a secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning; the emotional meaning attached to a word

• claim

• connotative

• counterclaim

• credibility

• denotative