Academic Vocabulary English

What does the term 'Ineffable' best relate to?

• Something that is easily described in words

• Something that is not bound by time

• Something too great or extreme to be expressed in words

• Something that is not affected by external forces

The focal statement of an essay revealing the purpose or argument of the text is the_______

• Main idea

• Claim

• Argument

• The thesis statement

Rhetoric is defined as

• The use of ethos. logos, and pathos

• The art of speaking and writing effectively and persuasively

• Fancy writing

• Something Aristotle came up with 3,000 years ago

The relationship between the speaker, the audience, and the message is called the ____________

• use of ethos

• rhetorical triangle

• Socratic triangle

• use of pathos

Using facts, statistics, and logical arguments is referred to as using the appeal to ________

• pathos

• ethos

• logos

• ethics

Appealing to your audience's emotions, values, and beliefs in order to convince them your argument is correct is the_______

• appeal to pathos

• appeal to ethos

• appeal to logos

• appeal to ethics

Building up a speaker's credibility on a message in order to convince the audience they should be trusted is called the _____

• appeal to pathos

• appeal to logos

• appeal to ethos

• appeal to authority

When the audience must infer for themselves what the character is like through the character's thoughts, actions, and speech...

• Direct characterization

• Indirect characterization

• Regular characterization

• Round character

When what happens in a story is opposite of what a character or the audience is expecting....

• Plain irony

• Verbal irony

• Dramatic irony

• Situational irony

When a character says one thing but means another....

• Dramatic irony

• Situational irony

• Plain irony

• Verbal irony