APLAC MC Final Terms Flashcards
(19 cards)
Allusion
a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment
Extended metaphor
when an author exploits a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked vehicles, tenors, and grounds throughout a poem or story.
Apostrophe
a figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding
Hyperbole
An exaggeration
Onomatopoeia
A sound word
Satire
The use of humor, irony, or exaggeration to ridicule someone or something
Declarative syntax
Declaring
Cumulative syntax
Adds up (Long and winding with clauses)
Interrogative syntax
Asking questions, questioning tone
Anecdotal evidence
Basically evidence from anecdotes. Where only one or a few anecdotes are presented, there is a larger chance that they may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases.
Dramatic irony
When the audience is more aware of what is happening than a character.
Verbal Irony
The use of words to mean something different than what they appear to mean.
Situational Irony
The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
Over-generalization
a logical fallacy that occurs when a conclusion about a group is drawn from an unrepresentative sample, especially a sample that is too small or too narrow
Faulty parallelism
Using parallelism incorrectly to compare 2 things
Pathetic fallacy
a literary term for the attributing of human emotion and conduct to all aspects within nature.[1] It is a kind of personification that is found in poetic writing when, for example, clouds seem sullen, when leaves dance, or when rocks seem indifferent.
Red Herring
a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to “win” an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic. This sort of “reasoning” has the following form:
Topic A is under discussion.
Topic B is introduced under the guise of being relevant to topic A (when topic B is actually not relevant to topic A).
Topic A is abandoned.
Metonymy
a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. (EX: Let me give you a hand, aka help)
Syllogistic argument
a rhetorical device that starts an argument with a reference to something general and from this it draws conclusion about something more specific. (EX: All men are mortal. John is a man. John is mortal.)
