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1st 9 Weeks (Set 6)
Test Friday October 18, 2019
Term | Definition |
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Appeal to authority | fallacy to make your argument "correct" because someone in power said so |
Condescend | talk down to (could be use for tone) |
Contemplative | describes tone and means thoughtful; same as pensive, but more officially |
Deductive reasoning | takes a larger topic and goes to the specific example |
Dissonance | unpleasant sound: authors writing style or combination of words |
Hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
Ominous | threatening |
Parallelism | Same sentence structure |
Parody | a feeble or ridiculous imitation of another work |
Prose | any writing that is not poetry |
Satire | mocking a general subject |
Semantics | meaning of word or sentence |
Solecism | purposeful error in grammar |
Syntax | sentence structure |
Trite | boring from much use; adjective |