Fallacies and Logic
Poetry Terms
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Other
100
A claim that presents an artificially limited range of choices.
What is Either-or/False Alternative?
100
A figure of speech in which a certain statement is expressed by denying its opposite.
What is Litotes?
100
The repition on vowel sounds in two or more words that do not rhyme.
What is Assonance?
100
The overuse of conjunctions in a sentence. AND & OR.
What is Polysyndeton?
100
Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came. HINT! O
What is Assonance?
200
A fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic.
What is Red Herring?
200
A form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
What is a Ballad?
200
The unspoken or unwritten meaning of a word. Not the dictionary definition.
What is Connotation?
200
A poem or stanza containing six lines.
What is Sestet?
200
Emma- nice, cool, tall, and really really awesome person. HINT! not dictionary definition.
What is Connotation?
300
EXAMPLE! A mother may tell her child: “Eat your broccoli or you won’t get desert.”
What is Either-Or?
300
EXAMPLE! "We are not amused." (but your laughing)
What is Litotes?
300
The counter part of anaphora. It is the repition of the same word or words at the END of multiple phrases, clauses or sentences.
What is Epistrophe?
300
The words order. The way in which the words are put together.
What is Syntax?
300
(da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM)
What is Iambic Pentameter?
400
EXAMPLE! "O. J. Simpson couldn't have murdered his wife. He's in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He's famous!"
What is Red Herring?
400
EXAMPLE!
The Mermaid
Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.
HINT! If I had a good singing voice i would sing this!
What is a Ballad?
400
The meter that Shakespeare nearly always used when writing in verse.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
400
WE are indeed a pair my lover,
Bound by our love for each other.
By silken threads and words
And ties that in no way bother
Tied yet free we do not smother
Bound by love, free as birds.
(this poem has 6 lines)
What is Sestet?
400
LIT. TERM! We are born to sorrow, pass our time in sorrow, end our days in sorrow.
What is Epistrophe?
500
The use of an object closely related with a word for the word itself.
What is Metonymy?
500
Come here Emma and Jeff and Victoria and Zona and Nicole and Nicole and Nicole and Cole.
What is Polysyndeton?
500
LIT. TERM! "The pen is mightier than the sword," meaning literary power is superior to military force. "The House was called to order," meaning the members in the House.
What is Metonymy?
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