Argumentative Essay Vocabulary Review

Closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand

• Claim

• Diction

• Relevant

• Logos

a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

• Point-of-view

• Inference

• Annotation

• Explicit

an appeal to ethics and credibility

• Citation

• Denotative

• Purpose

• Ethos

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques

• Rhetoric

• Sufficient

• Credibility

• Thesis

Enough; adequate

• Fallacy

• Ethos

• Tone

• Sufficient

faulty or mistaken logic

• Fallacious Reasoning

• Inference

• Central Idea

• Citation

Notes added to a text while participating in active reading

• Explicit

• Annotation

• Argument

• Claim

the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it

• Denotative

• Fallacy

• Audience

• Claim

an assertion of something as fact

• Audience

• Diction

• Claim

• Purpose

appeal to emotions

• Counterclaim

• Explicit

• Pathos

• Diction