41-60 Flashcards
False Analogy
When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them
Figurative Language
Language that contains figures of speech in order to create associations that are imaginative rather than literal
Figures of Speech
Expressions that imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or associations
Foreshadowing
Th use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs late in the work
Freight-Train
Sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions.
Generalization
When a writer bases a claim upon an isolated example or asserts that a claim is certain rather than probable. (all instances rather than some)
Genre
A type of literary work
Hubris
The excessive pride of ambition that leads a tragic hero to disregard warnings of impending doom, eventually causing their downfall.
Humor
Anything that causes laughter or amusement, until the end of the Renaiussance meant a person’s temperment
Hyperbole
Deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis
Image
A word or words , figurative or literal, used to describe a sensory experience or an object percieved by the senses, always a concrete representation
Imagery
Words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture
Inductions
The process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization
Inference
A conclusion one can draw from the presented details
Interior Monolouge
Writings that records the conversation that occurs inside a character’s head
