CISD Vocab Q3-Q4

personal opinions, emotions, and feelings

• Universal truths
• Objective facts
• Subjective point of view

• Common knowledge

based on facts - does not relate to opinions, feelings, or emotions

• objective point of view

• Personal beliefs
• Emotional responses
• Subjective opinions

systematic process of exploring issues, objects, or issues by fathering and analyzing evidence to make an informed conclusion

• Observation
• Guesswork
• Assumption
• inquiry

a statement of the author's position on an issue

• argumentative claim
• position paper
• conclusion statement
• claim

predictable characters or situations that are oversimplified and undesirable

• Archetypes
• Myths
• Clichés
• Stereotypes

a question asked in order to make a point - does not need an answer

• Open-ended question
• Rhetorical question
• Leading question
• Closed question

speaker or writer directs a message directly to an individual or group of people

• Indirect communication
• General statement
• Impersonal narration
• Direct address

specific choice of words designed to persuade an audience by appealing to emotions or stereotypes

• Stereotypical language
• Loaded language
• Persuasive speech
• Emotional rhetoric

applies a general rules to a specific instance without sufficient evidence

• Slippery slope
• sweeping generalization

• False dilemma
• Post hoc fallacy

a quoted fragment from a book, novel, poem, short story, article, speech or other literary work that is used to give the reader a specific example from the source

• reference
• quotation
• excerpt
• short story