First Nine Weeks Vocab
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| 7898240579 | Rhetoric | The art of using language efficiently and effectively | 0 | |
| 7898240580 | SOAPSTone | Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone | 1 | |
| 7898240581 | Logical appeal | Method of persuasion based on evidence and reasoning | 2 | |
| 7898240582 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 3 | |
| 7898240583 | Ethos, pathos, logos | Rrespectively, to appeal or persuade using ethics, emotion, or logic | 4 | |
| 7898240584 | Author's purpose | The reason the author has for writing (Inform, persuade, express, & entertain) | 5 | |
| 7898240585 | Memoir | An account based on the author's personal experience | 6 | |
| 7898240586 | Bias | Prejudice | 7 | |
| 7898240587 | Shift | Switch, a change in position or direction | 8 | |
| 7898240588 | Pacing | The fast or slow rate of the story | 9 | |
| 7898240589 | Argumentation | Exploring a problem by examining all sides of it, persuasion through reason | 10 | |
| 7898240590 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 11 | |
| 7898240591 | Counterargument/rebuttle/refutation | A challenge to a position, an opposing argument | 12 | |
| 7898240592 | Diction | Style of speaking or writing determined by the choice or words by a speaker or writer | 13 | |
| 7898240593 | Colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 14 | |
| 7898240594 | Mode | The general form, pattern, and manner of expression of a piece of discourse | 15 | |
| 7898240595 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences | 16 | |
| 7898240596 | Periodic/cumulative sentence | A long sentence in which the main clause (idea) is not completed until the end | 17 | |
| 7898240597 | Lose sentence | Main idea is at the beginning of the sentence | 18 | |
| 7898240598 | Logical fallacy | An error in the logical thinking that attempts to support a claim | 19 | |
| 7898240599 | Simple sentence | A sentence consisting of only one clause with a single subject and predict | 20 | |
| 7898240600 | Compound sentence | Two or more independent clauses joined by a conjunction | 21 | |
| 7898240601 | Complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 22 | |
| 7898240602 | Compound complex sentence | A sentence containing two or more independent clauses and one dependent clause | 23 | |
| 7898240603 | Imperative vs declarative vs exclamatory vs interrogative sentences | Command vs statement vs emotion vs question | 24 | |
| 7898240604 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 25 | |
| 7898240605 | Anecdote | A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 26 | |
| 7898240606 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group | 27 | |
| 7898240607 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 28 | |
| 7898240608 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 29 |
