an analogy in which the dissimilarities between 2 things are so much greater than their similarities that their connection by analogy is unjustified
What is false analogy?
100
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What is repetition?
100
"Hitler was a veggie lover, in this way, I don’t trust vegans."
What is fallacy?
100
" She's not bad.", " i cannot disagree with your point of view."
What is litote?
100
a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.
What is onomatopeia?
200
introduces an irrelevant point to distract the audience from the main or current argument
What is red herring?
200
“All dogs are canine. Tommy is a dog. Therefore, Tommy is a canine.”
What is syllogism.
200
“All animals are equal but a few are more equal than others.”
What is allegory?
200
special words or expressions that are used by groups, can be difficult to understand for others. a type of slang.
What is jargon?
200
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What is caricature?
300
replacing a word or phrase with something closely associated with.
examples.
"Let me give you a hand."
What is metonymy?
300
*HINT: SMART HUMOR*
"The MORE that you READ,
the more THINGS you'll KNOW.
the MORE you LEARN,
the more PLACES you'll GO."
-Dr. Seuss
What is wit?
300
Juicy: everyone should have red hair! because it looks so cool.
Whiskey: everyone should not have colored hair! because it is against the school policy!
What is rebuttal?
300
multiple meanings of one word, can lead to confusion and vagueness.
What is ambiguity?
300
THE FOUR RHETORICAL MODES.
What is narrative, argumentation, descriptive, and exposition?
400
presentation of details, characters, or incidents in a narrative in such a way that later events are prepared for
What is foreshadowing?
400
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.”
What is apostrophe?
400
“And stepping softly with her air of blooded ruin about the glade in a frail agony of grace she trailed her rags through dust and ashes, circling the dead fire, the charred billets and chalk bones, the little calcined rib cage.”
What is assonance?
400
the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.
What is semantics?
400
an informal fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence.
What is hasty generalization?
500
syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second.
example.
“Do I love you because you’re beautiful?
Or are you beautiful because I love you?”
-(Oscar Hammerstein, Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful?)
What is chiasmus?
500
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect and also with the purpose of developing comparison and contractions.
What is juxtaposition?
500
a type of poem that has a serious expression or reflection, usually about death.
What is elegy?
500
give human attributions, characteristics, and qualities to animals or deities.
examples.
"Brian from Family Guy"
"Sonic the Hedgehog"
What is anthropomorphism?
500
present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time.
examples.
"I smell trouble."
"Skittles: Taste the Rainbow"