Team Time The following is what part of speech Mitch wore a plaid shirt He looked spiffy Antecedent the noun or noun phrase a pronoun refers to To which fallacy does this example apply ID: 758189
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A Massive Review of Fallacies, Parallelism and other Language Terms
Team Time! Slide2
The following is what part of speech?
Mitch
wore a plaid shirt.
He
looked spiffy. Slide3
Antecedent- the noun or noun phrase a pronoun refers to.Slide4
To which fallacy does this example apply?
85% of consumers purchase IBM computers rather than Macintosh; all those people can’t be wrong. IBM must make the best computers. Slide5
Hypothesis contrary to fact- the claim about IBM making the best computers is not supported well. The number of people purchasing computers does not equate with quality.
Slide6
The following is what type of sentence?
“In
America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards."Slide7
Compound/Complex Sentence- contains two or more independent clauses or one or more subordinate clausesSlide8
To which fallacy does this example apply?
'President Reagan was a great communicator because he had the knack of talking effectively to the people.' Slide9
Circular reasoning- talking effectively does not mean one is a good communicator, there is no evidence given as to why Reagan is a good communicator. Slide10
To which fallacy does this example apply?
- Three congressional representatives have had affairs. Therefore, members of Congress are adulterers.Slide11
Hasty Generalization- not all congressional reps have affairs. Slide12
The following is what type of sentence?
“Hungry I am.”
-Slide13
Inverted Order Sentence- Predicate comes before the subject- created for rhyming effectSlide14
The following sentence is an example of what type of parallelism? "
It rained
on his lousy tombstone, and
it rained
on the grass on his stomach.
It rained
all over the place
.“-
Catcher in the RyeSlide15
Anaphora- repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses.Slide16
To which fallacy does this example apply?
The level of mercury in seafood may be unsafe, but what will fishers do to support their families?Slide17
Red Herring- changing the subject or avoiding the argument by presenting a question or statement unrelated to the argument. Slide18
To which fallacy does this example apply?
Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty, lazy hippies.Slide19
Ad hominem- attacking the man or institution rather than the issue. Slide20
To which fallacy does this example apply?
People who don't support the proposed state minimum wage increase hate the poor.Slide21
Straw Man- oversimplifying a viewpoint and then attacking the hollow argument created in the oversimplification. Slide22
Which form of parallelism fits best with the example below?
We lived and laughed and loved and left.Slide23
Polysyndeton- deliberate use of many conjunctionsSlide24
Which form of parallelism fits best with the example below?
“You
held your breath and the door for me."Slide25
Zeugma- The use of a verb that has two different meanings with objects that complement both meanings. Slide26
Which form of parallelism fits best with the example below?
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.Slide27
Antithesis-The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases grammatical structure, or ideas.Slide28
Which form of parallelism fits best with the example below?
“I
can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."Slide29
Antimetabole: A sentence strategy (a form of chiasmus) in which the arrangement of ideas in the second clause is a reversal of the first.
The
same words are used but in a reverse order.Slide30
Which form of parallelism fits best with the example below?
As seen on a plumbers truck: “A Flush Beats a Full
House”Slide31
Zeugma- The use of a verb that has two different meanings with objects that complement both meanings. Slide32
Which form of parallelism fits best with the example below?
Next time? There won’t be a next time. Slide33
Epanalepsis: Repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end. The beginning and end are two positions of strongest emphasis, so special attention is called by having the same word in both places.Slide34
Which form of parallelism fits best with the example below?
Come
then: let us to the task, to the battle, to the toil--each to our part, each to our station. Fill the armies, rule the air, pour out the munitions, strangle the U-boats, sweep the mines, plow the land, build the ships, guard the streets, succor the wounded, uplift the downcast, and honor the brave
.Slide35
Isocolon: Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length. Slide36
Which rhetorical device is exemplified in the following example?
In the farmhouse I saw, with my own eyes, this sight: there was a man, of young age and graceful proportion, whose body had been torn limb from limb. The torso was here, an arm there, a leg there. . .
.All
this I saw with my own eyes, and it was the most fearsome sight I ever witnessed." Slide37
Pleonasm- the use of an excessive amount of words to say somethingSlide38
Which rhetorical device is exemplified in the following example?
Kurt Cobain died from a fatal heroin overdose. Slide39
Tautology is where two near-synonyms are placed consecutively or very close together for effectSlide40
Which rhetorical device is exemplified in the following example?
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money
alone. It
is spending
the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children
."Slide41
Tricolon is the rhetorical term for a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses. An
ascending
tricolon
is comprised of parts increasing in strength, magnitude, or word length with each pause, whereas a
descending
tricolon
decreases in magnitude or size with each part.Slide42
Which rhetorical device is exemplified in the following example?
I visited my shrink today. Slide43
Meiosis is a form of understatement that dismisses or belittles especially by using terms that make something seem less significant than it really ought to be, often used ironically.Slide44
Which rhetorical device is exemplified in the following example?
“I
have been rather reluctant to have a volume of
sermons
printed. My misgivings have grown out of the fact that a
sermon
is not an
essay
to be read but a discourse to be heard. It should be a convincing appeal to a listening congregation."Slide45
Homily- a speech in the form of a sermonSlide46
Which rhetorical device is exemplified in the following example?
The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot
.Slide47
Paradox- a figure of speech in which a statement appears to contradict itselfSlide48
Which rhetorical device is exemplified in the following example?
How is it possible to have a
civil
war
?Slide49
Oxymoron- when seemingly contradictory terms appear within a sentence or phraseSlide50
Which rhetorical device is exemplified in the following example?
see my body is borrowed
i
got it on loan
for the time in between my mom and some maggotsSlide51
Metonomy- a word or phrase is substituted for another word or phrase that is closely associatedSlide52
Define the following rhetorical terms.
syntaxSlide53
A major component of grammar, the study of the way words form sentences and phrasesSlide54
Define and provide an example of the following rhetorical terms.
dictionSlide55
Diction- the way in which a writer uses words in speech or writingSlide56
Define and provide an example of the following rhetorical terms.
aphorismSlide57
Aphorism- a brief statement of principleSlide58
Dramatic irony
Define and provide an example of the following rhetorical terms
.Slide59
Dramatic irony- An occasion in a play, film, or other work in which a
character’s words
or actions convey a
meaning unperceived
by the character but understood by
the audience.Slide60
Based on the example below, what is a participle?
The crying baby hurt my ears.Slide61
A participle is…
A verbal that is used as an adjective and most often ends in
ing
or ed. Verbal's are based on verbs and express and action or state of being but they function as adjectives.Slide62
Create a sentence with a subordinating conjunction.Slide63
Subordinating Conjunction
The subordinating conjunction provides a necessary transition between two ideas and it reduces the importance of one clause to another.