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Myth
Traditional story that attempts to explain how the world was created or why the world is the way it is
Narrative
Any routing that tells a story
Ode
A lyric poem of some length
Oral history
Stories of people’s lives related by word of mouth
Oxymoron
But I am a figurative language combining contradictory words or ideas
Parallelism
Use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance
Parody
Literary or artistic work that mistakes the characteristic style of an authors work for comic effect or ridicule
Personification
Figure of speech where animals, ideas, or objects are given human characteristics
Beging the question
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.
Ad hominem
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.
Argument from authority
Claimed someone with authority thus it is true
Predicting
Process of gathering information and combining it with the readers own knowledge to guess what might occur in a story
Primary source
First hand account of an event
Propoganda
Text that you just faults or miss leading information to present a slanted point of view
Prose
Ordinary form of spoken and written language