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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 symbol | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible |
| propaganda | information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause |
| appeal by association | an appeal that connects an item, action, or claim with something desirable, such as popularity or luxury |
| appeal to authority | Appeals to an authority to support a position, idea, argument, or course of action |
| appeal to emotions | fallacy - using words to invoke feelings to get attention away from the issue |
| logical appeal | attempting to persuade through appealing to the reader's sense of reason |
| appeal to loyalty | Appeal to one's sense of pride and/or loyalty to a certain person, belief, organization, etc. |
| faulty cause and effect | Use of product is falsely credited for a result |
| loaded words | using words whose connotation is generally accepted by the audience as positive (or negative) in order to create a subconscious association. |
| assertion | a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) |
| card stacking | telling one side of the story as though there is no opposing view |
| glittering generalities | use of intensely emotionally appealing words so closely associated with highly valued concepts and beliefs that they carry conviction without supporting information or reason |
| plain folks | using people just like you and me to state a case |
| stereotyping | Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which that person belongs |
| name calling | verbal abuse |
| transfer | move from one place to another |
| tesimonial | a recommendation; a tribute to a person's accomplishments |
| bandwagon | a popular trend that attracts growing support |
| appeal to fear | attempt to frighten one into an action or into accepting a belief (Ex:if u dont do X, then Y will happen) |
| literal launguage | To be interpreted with actual or strict meanings of the words. Ex. He ran with great speed and agility, eluding would be tacklers on all sides |
| figuative launguage | a way of saying one thing and meaning something else. it provides the writer whith the poppertunity to write imaginatibly, and it sloe tests the imaginatioon of the reaser, forcing the reader to go below the surface of literary work into deep, hidden meanings. |
| simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') |
| alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| style | a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
| connotation | an idea that is implied or suggested |
| denotation | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression |
| diction | the manner in which something is expressed in words |
| imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events |
| irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
| syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences |
| stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
| sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
| rhyme | a piece of poetry |
| meter | any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity |
| narative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| free verse | unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern |
| ballad | a narrative poem of popular origin |
| allegory | an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) |
| couplet | a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse |
| onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound they denote |
| haiku | an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines |
| cinquain | a five line stanza |
| personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature |
| refrain | not do something |
| limerick | a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem |
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