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• PSSA HELP!!
Lauren Kight Pd.1
Hasty Generalization • To jump to the easiest,
quickest, most obvious conclusion without enough examples to support it
Red Herring
• Something that draws attention away from the central issue.
Appeal to Fear
• a fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for his or her idea by increasing fear and prejudice toward a competitor.
False Cause
• informal fallacy which is committed when an argument assumes a causal relationship without sufficient grounds.
Bandwagon
• A cause or party that attracts increasing numbers of adherents
Prefixes
• Re - again, back
• Un – not/reversal or cancellation of action or state
•Mis - bad, badly
•De - down, away •Dis - apart, not
Suffixes
• Able - able, can do • Ous - full of• Ment - act of, result • Ness - state of • Ful - full of
fallacy
• A false or erroneous idea.
Denotation
• The exact, literal dictionary definition of a word.
Ex.) The denotation of the word home is simply "a place where one lives"
irony
• method of expression in which the ordinary meaning of a word or situation is the opposite of the thought in the speaker's mind; when the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs.
parody
• humorous imitation of a serious writing; to make fun of something by copying it. A parody follows the form of the original.
sarcasm
• bitter, cutting remarks intended to hurt someone's feelings.
exaggeration
• to stretch the truth, make something seem better or worse that it really is. Hyperbole, a exaggerated ridiculous comparison for effect, can also be used.
Ridicule
• To make fun of something.
Pun • a humorous use of a
word where it can have different meanings; a play on words with almost the same meaning.
There is only one way to open the door and that is the key.”
allusion
• a reference to a person, a place or event from a word of literature, myth, the Bible, history, sports, science, the arts, etc.
satire
• using irony, sarcasm, ridicule, etc. in a literary composition to hold human vices, weaknesses, etc. up to ridicule; the author's purpose is to to encourage the correction of the weakness, etc.
Tips• Wake up
• Eat the crappy breakfast the school gives to you
• Listen to the crappy lectures they give you
• Go to testing room
• Listen to the teacher read the same directions everyday
• DO NOT FALL ASLEEP
(this might be really hard but just try to deal)
• Go to get extra time to avoid your boring 4th period class
• Have a nice rest of the day