Poetry Terms
Logical Fallacies
Guess the story
100

"The beautiful bouquet blossomed in the bright sun"

Alliteration

100
"I didn't like the ice cream at the shop in Hamden, so all of the ice cream shops in Hamden must be horrible"

Hasty Generalization

100

"Fair is foul, foul is fair"

Macbeth

200

"Death, be not proud"

Apostrophe

200

"My teacher said it's good to sleep at 9pm every night, so I've started doing that"

Appeal to Authority
200

"What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?"

LOTF

300

"Go slow on the road"

Assonance

300

"I failed by exam so now I'm not graduating and I'm going to be homeless"

Slippery Slope

300

"Four legs good, two legs bad."

Animal Farm

400

"I need a headcount of everyone here"

Synecdoche

400

"While I have a clear plan for the campus budget that accounts for every dollar spent, my opponent simply wants to throw money at special interest projects."

Equivocation

400

"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?"

Macbeth

500

"You have to spend money to make money"

Paradox

500

"I know I should have been on time for the interview, but I woke up late and felt really bad about it, then the stress of being late made it hard to concentrate on driving here."

Appeal to Pity

500

"Everything must be free. Because if its not free, if tthere's a price, that means it keeps some people away"

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