Midterm Terms Flashcards
What is a comma splice?
Two or more sentences separated by only a comma.
What is a fused sentence?
Two or more sentences joined together with no punctuation where the thoughts intersect.
What is a fragment?
A part of a sentence or an incomplete sentence
What are the seven coordinating conjunctions?
For, and, but, nor, but, or, yet, so (FANBOYS)
Name three transitional words.
Furthermore, however, therefore, first, second, third
What is a fallacy?
A flaw in logic.
Name three fallacies
Ad hominem, false analogy, stereotyping, either/or, post hoc, card stacking, hasty generalization
How many types of compare/contrast essays are there?
2
What are they?
Point by point and Block
What is your professor’s last name?
Dieffenbach
What is a narrative?
A story told from the writer’s perspective or a personal story.
Assuming that because two events happened, the first one caused the second one.
Post Hoc
Discrediting or attacking the person making the argument rather than the argument itself. Against the man.
Ad Hominem
When a conclusion does not follow logically from its given premise.
Non-Sequitur
Brings the argument down to one of two choices making it overly simple.
Either/Or
Propaganda that tells all the positives about something without telling the negatives.
Card Stacking
Inferences based on an analogy that is too different from the argument.
Faulty Analogy
Jumping to a conclusion before understanding all the facts relevant to it; not having evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Does not prove the argument rather than restates it or distract from the point.
Arguing off the Point
Blonds have more fun
Stereotyping
Discrediting an idea, claim, or person by associating it with an undesirable person or group.
Guilt by Association
I failed my midterm because of a black cat crossed my path
Post Hoc
College students have such an easy life. They only go to class twelve to fifteen hours a week.
Card Stacking
Each part of an argument has to rely on the truthfulness of the other; going in circles. If this is true because that is true, that is true because this is true.
Circular Argument
Jenny is always talking in class. You’re her best friend, so I know you are talking too.
Guilt by Association
You either love or hate me
Either/Or
Bill’s been out every night for two weeks. Who is she?
Non-Sequitur
Teaching high school students sex education is like taking an alcoholic to a bar.
Faulty Analogy
I would never take Mrs. Dieffenbach’s Comp 2 class. She drives a minivan and doesn’t like ducks.
Ad Hominem
The cheese tastes funny. I am never eating cheese again.
Hasty Generalization
Eating cheese has never been determined bad for our health. We should all tell the school administrators so that they stop serving cheese at lunch.
Begging the Question
There is no parking at FSCJ because I can never find a parking space.
Circular Argument
I would never take Mrs. Dieffenbach’s Comp 2 class. She drives a minivan and doesn’t like ducks.
Ad Hominem
Mom, did you see that there is a sale at Dillard’s?
Arguing off the point
Stay-at-home mothers have such an easy job. All they do is sit around and watch soap operas
Card Stacking
Mr. McGoo is running for Congress, but I would never vote for him because he’s bald
Ad Hominem
Billy really loves to eat. Someday he’s going to have a weight problem.
Non-Sequitur
Corporal punishment is a necessary evil. Children respond best to humiliation, and it makes them understand the consequences
Card Stacking
It’s hard to imagine what Alice went through in the virtual simulation.
It is; It’s
It’s very hard to understand why the Victory Project was so popular and its purpose.
Its
Lose or loose
Lose
I would rather sit naked on a hot grill than wear something off the rack.
Than
I sat naked on a hot grill then I got burned.
Then
Did you find the pencils where I told you?
Where; location
The pencils were where you told me
Were
We’re going to the mall, but Alice is staying home.
We’re; We are
The girls want to go to the mall, if they have any money, they will buy some new shoes that they saw last week.
Fused Sentence
Because students were tired and grumpy and hungry
Sentence Fragment
Todd told Shirley and Shirley told the teacher.
Fused Sentence
Finals are hard for they require so much concentration.
Fused Sentence
When I was sick with the flu, my husband took good care of me expect he didn’t let me sleep as much as I wanted to, he was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.
Comma Splice
I have, finally finished the last bit of chocolate-covered popcorn now I don’t have to worry about my children finding my stash.
Fused Sentence
Alice went to the store for candy, she also went for milk.
Comma Splice
I enjoy amusement parks, I didn’t have fun at Great America.
Comma Splice
Jack is chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, he also heads the Warrant Committee.
Comma Splice
Your ice cream will melt, you should eat it quickly.
Comma Splice
I studied hard this semester I earned good grades
Fused Sentence
Because Alice started to discover the truth.
Sentence Fragment
This is the last question of the final so I won’t make it too hard and I’ll tell you that it is a fused sentence
Fused Sentence
Jack didn’t let Alice choose to enter the Victory Project Alice felt betrayed by her husband.
Fused Sentence
Felt betrayed by her husband.
Sentence Fragment
Alice loved her job as a nurse, Jack hated that Alice was a nurse and worked all the time
Comma Splice
Hated that Alice was a nurse and worked all the time.
Sentence Fragment
Robbed Alice from choosing if she wanted to be in the Victory Project or at her job
Sentence Fragment
Stabbed Jack and bloodied her white satin dress
Sentence Fragment
Conclusion is assumed to be true in the argument’s premises.
Begging the Question
