Domain specific vocabulary

Match the following

• means by which an alleged matter is established or disproved

• counterargument

• an assertion offered as evidence that something is true

• claim

• discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage

• context

• an assertion that something is true or factual

• evidence

• an opinion offered in opposition to another position

• argument

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

Multinationals have a tough approach to child labour and cancel their contracts with companies which employ children.

• Academic: a method
• General: coming nearer

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Which of the following is an opinion?

• Plastic bottles can be recycled.

• The average person produces 4 pounds of trash a day.

• Americans should recycle more.

• Styrofoam cannot be recycled.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The insight into life that the author wants the reader to get

• Theme

• Lesson

• Moral

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

"information age" is

• academic

• domain-specific

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the name for the time and place during which a story occurs?

• Setting
• Plot
• Location
• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Choose the best answer that describes the word in bold.

The teams demand a fair treatment.

• cover up something

• pay for something in a from of gift

• describe a team player in a very detailed way

• ask for something, not expecting to be refused

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

A statement put forth and supported by evidence

• Argument

• Quote

• Perspective

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

an expression that has been overused

• idiom

• cliche'

• simile

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

the underlying point of a piece of writing that is not directly stated

• Substrate

• Sophistry

• Subterranean

• Subtext

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.3.4