41-60 Flashcards

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False Analogy

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When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them

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Figurative Language

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Language that contains figures of speech in order to create associations that are imaginative rather than literal

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Figures of Speech

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Expressions that imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or associations

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Foreshadowing

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Th use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs late in the work

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Freight-Train

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Sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions.

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Generalization

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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)

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Genre

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A type of literary work

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Hubris

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The excessive pride of ambition that leads a tragic hero to disregard warnings of impending doom, eventually causing their downfall.

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Humor

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Anything that causes laughter or amusement, until the end of the Renaiussance meant a person’s temperment

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis

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Image

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A word or words , figurative or literal, used to describe a sensory experience or an object percieved by the senses, always a concrete representation

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Imagery

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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

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Inductions

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The process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization

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Inference

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A conclusion one can draw from the presented details

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Interior Monolouge

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Writings that records the conversation that occurs inside a character’s head

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Invective

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A verbally abusive attack

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Inversion

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Reversing the customary (subject first, then verb, then compliment) order of elements in a sentence or phrase, often used in questions

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Ironey

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A situation or statement in which the outcome was opposite of what was expected

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Jargon

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The special language of a profession or group

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Logic

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The process of reasoning

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Figurative Language

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Simile, metaphor, and hyperbole

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Freight-Train

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And the wind blew, and the rain fell, and the lightning flashed.

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Gerneralization

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This sci-fi movie was bad, therefore all sci-fi movies are bad.

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Genre

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Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Bildungsroman

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Induction
The first flower was pink, the second flower as well, and the third pink too, therefore all the flowers are pink.
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Invective
Stupid, Fat, Ugly, Crazy
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Inversion
"Where in the world where you?"
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Ironey
Romeo think Juliet is dead and kills himself, and Juliet then kills herself for real.
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Jargon
FX - Medical, meaning bone fracture, BP- Blood Preasure