Test Prep Vocabulary

A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event real or fictional.

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Analyze

• Argument

A relationship created between new and familiar words, concepts, or ideas.

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Analyze

• Argument

Break something down into parts and see how they are related.

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Analyze

• Argument

To evaluate the nature, ability, or quality of.

• audience

• author's purpose

• assess

• avoid

The motive or reason for which an author writes, as to entertain, inform, or persuade.

• audience

• author's purpose

• assess

• avoid

Keep away or stop oneself from doing.

• audience

• author's purpose

• assess

• avoid

Have as the foundation of something.

• between

• based

• boxes

Express a position on a problem and support it with reasons or evidence.

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Analyze

• Argument

Aspect is another word for:

• Bear

• Floor

• Part

• Jelly

Rhetoric means:

• Computers and IPads

• It is cool today.

• The words used to persuade people.

• Paper and pen