running notes 151-164 Flashcards

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Myth

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Traditional story that attempts to explain how the world was created or why the world is the way it is

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Narrative

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Any routing that tells a story

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Ode

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A lyric poem of some length

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Oral history

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Stories of people’s lives related by word of mouth

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Oxymoron

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But I am a figurative language combining contradictory words or ideas

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Parallelism

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Use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance

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Parody

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Literary or artistic work that mistakes the characteristic style of an authors work for comic effect or ridicule

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Personification

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Figure of speech where animals, ideas, or objects are given human characteristics

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Beging the question

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Begging the Question is a fallacy in which the premises include the claim that the conclusion is true or (directly or indirectly) assume that the conclusion is true.

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Ad hominem

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understood as a logical fallacy in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.

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Argument from authority

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Claimed someone with authority thus it is true

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Predicting

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Process of gathering information and combining it with the readers own knowledge to guess what might occur in a story

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Primary source

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First hand account of an event

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Propoganda

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Text that you just faults or miss leading information to present a slanted point of view

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Prose

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Ordinary form of spoken and written language

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