If I get a bad grade on the midterm, I will fail English. If I fail English, my dad will throw me out. If Dad throws me out, I will start dealing drugs to little kids.
What is Slippery Slope
100
If we don't come home for Christmas, Mom will be so sad.
What is Sentimental Appeal?
100
a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
making an educated guess about what's going on in a story or what will happen based on what you're given by the author.
What is an Inference?
100
a word that sounds like what it means. ex: Buzzing
What is Onomatopoeia?
200
I shouldn't have to drive Mom's old car. All of my friend's parents bought them brand new cars!
What is Bandwagon
200
I don't know a single woman that likes action movies, so I guess only guys are into action films.
What is Hasty Generalization?
200
Sally Sells Seashells down by the Seashore
What is alliteration?
200
The dictionary definition of a word
What is Denotation?
200
Poetry that doesn't have a rhyme scheme or set meter
What is Free Verse?
300
If you don't like football, then you're basically a communist.
What is Either/Or
300
Having more than seven cups of coffee a day will cause cancer
What is Scare Tactics?
300
The TIME and PLACE in which a story takes place
What is the setting?
300
rephrasing a portion of text in your own words, often used to make it more obvious or understandable.
What is Paraphrase?
300
Occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues its thought on the next line
What is Enjambment?
400
We never would've lost the game if I had worn my lucky socks.
What is Faulty Causality
400
You can't talk to me about politics. I heard you didn't even vote.
What is Ad Hominem
400
a story or poem that has a surface meaning and then a deeper symbolic meaning such as Orwell's "Animal Farm"
What is an Allegory?
400
The character in the story whom we spend the most time with, who advances the story, whose problem we identify with, who often is the most affected by an outcome
Who is the Protagonist?
400
The repetition of consonant sounds occurring anywhere within the words in a chunk of text
What is Consonance?
500
You argue that we should have gun control measures in place? I'm surprised you want to disarm our citizenry and go against the whole constitution.
What is Straw Man
500
My cousin's a mechanic, and he swears that the Hadron collider's a faulty machine, and we shouldn't trust anything the scientists learn from it.
What is Appeal to False Authority
500
The attitude the writer takes toward their subject or characters, generally conveyed through diction
What is Tone?
500
the atmosphere of the story. The feelings that the author invokes through diction and description.
What is Mood?
500
Making reference to another piece of work, text, or some other source material