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Final Exam (To Be Paired With Shakespeare Facts) Flashcards

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Ad Hominem

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Attatcking the arguer instead of the argument

You are too young to know any better

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Either/Or (False Dichotomy)

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Not considering all alternatives

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Slippery Slope

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Imagining an illogical chain of events

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Red Herring (Digression)

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Arguing something different from the main argument

Okay, but what about this?

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Straw man

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Changing (modifying) the argument and attacking the new argument
I can’t eat all of the pizza? You just want me to be miserable

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Hasty Generalization

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Not using a sufficient sample size to justify the argument

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Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc (Faulty Casual)

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Assuming something is the cause of something else just because it came before it
(After this, therefore because of this)

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Anecdotal Argument

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Using a singlular experience to serve as an entire argument

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Confirmation Bias

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Finding evidence by wittingly or unwittingly looking for evidence in a location where evidence is most likely to support your argument

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Affect

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Doing something to something, A=alter

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Effect

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Result, to bring about

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Bad

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Adj. tastes bad

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Badly

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Adv., swim badly

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Further

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To continue

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Farther

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Distance (unless metaphorical)

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Good

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Adj, I feel good (well)

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Well

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Adv., I feel well (good)

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Lay

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Put into a certain place

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Lie

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Not tell truth, assume a reclining position

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Equality

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State of being equal. Same in quality, measure or value, or status

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Equity

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Quality of being fair, reasonable, impartial

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Mute

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Expressed without speech

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Moot

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Of no legal significance, open to argument or debate, think about carefully.

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E.g.

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For example

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I.e.

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That is

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Insure

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Protect against risk

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Ensure

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Make certain of

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Healthy

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Has a state of health, can be personified

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Healthful

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Full of good health, good for health

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Anxious

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Eagerly desirous (connected to fear)

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Excited

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In an aroused state (connected to joy)

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Off

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Use, not on

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Off of

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Do not use

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Different from

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Use, not like

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Different than

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Do not use

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By accident

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Use, not purposeful

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On accident

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Do not use

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Allusion

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A reference to a person place, event, or thing that is known from, literature, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or pop culture

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Antagonist

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A character or entity that goes against the protagonist and what the protagonist wants to achieve

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Conflict

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A problem

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Epiphany

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When a character has gained a new understanding that causes a dynamic, life-altering change—often, the character endures a near-death experience and then changes in such a way that he/she will be stronger and better off for the experience

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Foreshadowing

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The use of clues to hint to events that will occur later in the plot

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Genre

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A category for a specific type of nove, music, movie, etc

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Irony

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Contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality

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Situational irony

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A situation itself is ironic

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Dramatic irony

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Audience knows something that is unknown to a character or characters

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Verbal irony

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A person says one thing, but means the opposite

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Paradox

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A statement or situation that appears to be contradictory but upon closer examination proves to make sense

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Plot

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A series of related events that tell a story

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Exposition

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Beginning of the story which can include setting, tone, reference to previous action, introduction to characters, intro. to conflict, etc.

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Rising action

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The problem becomes more intense or further problems are introduced

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Climax

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Most intense moment, when the main conflict is addressed for the final time

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Denouement

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Ending of the story, resolution

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Point of view

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The vantage point from which the writer has chosen to tell the story

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1st person

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One of the characters is telling the story, get to know character well, but are limited to what he knows

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3rd limited

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Narator, who is not a character in the story, focuses on the thoughts and feelings of just one character

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3rd Omniscient

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Narrator knows everything about everyone and can know everything about the past, present, and future. Can follow the actions of multiple characters

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Protagonist

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A main character (good or bad) of a story

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Sarcasm

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An insincere tone of voice

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Subject

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What a story is about

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Symbolism

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Something that stands for itself and something beyond itself as well
ALL MIGHT

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Theme

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The central idea of a work of literature / insights gained about the subject of a story / meaning that the author reveals

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Tone

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An author’s attitude toward a subject, character, etc. in a work of literature

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Stanza

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A group of lines in poetry, like a paragraph

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Imagery

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Use of words and descriptions to appeal to the senses

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Metaphor

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Comparison without like or as

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Implied metaphor

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Subtle comparisons where the things compared are not specifically explained

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Personification

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Giving something human attributes

70
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Alliteration

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Repeated beginning sound of words in a row

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Rythm

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Regular beat of something

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Meter

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Way of counting beats in poetry

Honors English 2 (8 decks)

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