ELA Info Text Academic Vocabulary

Notes added to a text while participating in active reading are called

• Annotation

• Citation

• Fallacy

• Inference

A statement, reason, or fact for or against a point is

• an argument

• credibility

• rhetoric

• tone

The persons reached by a book, media or television broadcast, etc. is

• the audience

• the central idea

• the ethos

• is point-of-view.

The main idea of the writing or the point the author wants you to remember the most is

• the central idea

• the diction

• the purpose

• the tone

A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work is

• a citation

• denotative

• explicit

• a fallacy

A claim made to rebut a previous claim is

• a counterclaim

• explicit

• logos

• a thesis

The quality of being trusted and believed in is called

• credibility

• fallacy

• inference

• pathos

The choice and intentional use of words and phrases in writing and speeches is called

• diction

• fallacious reasoning

• purpose

• tone

An appeal to the ethics and credibility of a speaker or source is called

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

A statement made clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt is

• explicit

• relevant

• sufficient

• inference