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English III quiz
Bad things/ Non Appealing/ rhetorical devices
Term | Definition |
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Logical Fallacies | Logic negatives |
Propaganda | Advertising negative persuasion |
Ad hominem | attack's persons character |
false casualty | assumption that if a happened before b, a caused b |
red herring | distraction from main idea |
Bandwagon | assuming something is right or good from popularity |
scare tactics | fear to encourage action |
glittering generalities | words unsupported by facts |
star power | using a celebrity to tell you how to act or think |
Rhetorical device | emphasizes key points to move audience emotion |
restatement | synonyms |
repetition | same words |
parallelism | same grammatical structure |
Rhetorical questions | questions with self-evident answers |
allusions | using something that is well-known |