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English III quiz
Bad things/ Non Appealing/ rhetorical devices
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |