Errors in Reasoning
Citing a false or remote cause
What is a false cause (cause and effect)
Unfairly attacking the person instead of the issue
What is an Ad Hominem
Devices that poets use to make their poetry sound more interesting
What are Poetic Devices
This type of poetry is broken into stanzas of:
Five
Seven
Five
What is a Haiku
This type of poem is arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem
What is a Concrete Poem
Making a complicated issue seem very simple
What is an over simplification
The opinion is to be proved is presented as if it were ALREADY proved
What is Begging the Question
A sound or word repeated regularly, and a phrase repeated
What are repetitions and refrains
This type of poetry is written in line and stanzas but does not rhyme
What is Blank Verse Poetry
DAILY DOUBLE!
This type of poem is a funny poem with a set rhyme scheme of AABBA. Most of this type of poem do not make sense; they are meant to be nonsense
Defending something done wrong by citing another incident of wrong doing
What is two wrongs make a right
Assuming that because two things happened, the first one caused the second one
What is a False Cause(Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc)
A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form(usually using lines and stanzas)
What is Poetry
This poem is a type of poem that tells a story
What is a Narrative Poem
This language is not meant to be taken literally
Language that communicates ideas beyond the meaning of the word
Language that often says one thing when it means another
What is Figurative Language
Implying that one small step in the wrong direction will cause catastrophic results
What is slippery slope
Juvenile tricks of language
What is an Equivocation
A group of words together in a ____ and a group of lines arranged together
What are Lines and Stanzas
This poem is a five line poem containing twenty-two syllables.
2,4,6,8,2
What is a Cinquain Poem
A comparison of two things using like or as & a direct comparison of two things that are not really alike
What are Similes and Metaphors
“It does not follow”
What is a Non Sequiter
An inference drawn from insufficient evidence
What is a Hasty Generalization
The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
What is Rhythm
This poem, or series of lines, in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, form a name, motto, or message when read in order.
What is an Acrostic Poem
Exaggeration often used for emphasis and an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression
What are Hyperboles and Idioms