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1st 9 Weeks (Set 6)
Test Friday October 18, 2019
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |