Types of Irony
_____ is a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens.
What is Irony?
_____ is a work that ridicules its subject through the use of various techniques to comment/criticize it.
What is Satire?
_____ _____ is the use of virtue words to link something to a positive ideal.
What is Glittering Generalities?
_____ _____ links a person, or idea, to a negative symbol. This is a form of Ad Homineum which is an attack, or insult, on the person.
What is Name Calling?
What is Appeal to False Authority?
_____ _____ is when the readers or audience know something the characters don't.
What is Dramatic Irony?
_____ is to enlarge, increase, or represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen.
What is Exaggeration?
A _____ _____ is based on a bad assumption. This is also known as a _____ fallacy and is an exaggerated coincidence.
What is Faulty Causality and Post-Hoc?
_____ _____ is when a message is manipulated to promote a cause. It can also be known as _____ _____
What is Slippery Slope and Bad Logic?
The _____ _____ _____ is committed when a person ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version.
What is Straw Man Fallacy?
_____ _____ is when the opposite of what is expected happens.
What is Situational Irony?
_____ is to imitate the techniques and/or style of some person, place, or thing in a ridiculous manner.
What is Parody?
_____ _____ play on deep-seated fears and warns the audience that disaster will follow should they not do what the messenger wants.
What is Fear/Scare Tactics?
The _____ fallacy is also known as a _____ _____. It insinuates that a situation only has a limited amount of alternatives.
What is Either/Or and False Dilemma?
The _____ _____ is the manipulation of the viewer's emotions in the absence of facts or evidence.
What is Sentimental Appeal?
What is Verbal Irony?
_____ is to present things that are out of place, or absurd in relation to its surroundings.
_____ links a person or idea to something respected or reverted in order to transfer a positive image.
What is Transferring?
_____ _____ is when someone makes a huge prediction about the future with limited information.
What is Unwarranted Extrapolation?
_____ is a Greek philosopher who was fascinated with the _____, the art of persuasive speaking and writing.
What is Aristotle and Rhetoric?
Verbal Irony is similar to _____ , but with more attitude.
What is Sarcasm?
_____ is to present the opposite of normal order (ex: order of events, hierarchical order, order of things as we know them, etc.)
What is Reversal?
A _____ _____ is making assumptions about a whole group or range based upon limited observations or evidence.
What is Hasty Generalizations?
_____ is making the appeal that "everyone else is doing it, so should you!"
What is Bandwagon?
List the three types of Rhetoric and provide a brief description of each.
Ethos: An appeal to authority and creditability.
Pathos: An appeal to the emotions of the audience.
Logos: An appeal to logic and reason by using research and statistics.