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10 Cards in this Set
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When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them.
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False Analogy
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Language that contains figures of speech, such as similes and metaphors, in order to create associations that are imaginative rather than literal.
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Figurative Language
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Expressions, such as similes, metaphors, and personifications, that make imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or associations.
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Figures of Speech
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The use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occures late in the work.
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Foreshadowing
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Sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions.
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Freight-Train
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When a writer bases a claim upon an isolated example or asserts that a claim is certain rather than probable. It occures when a writer asserts that a claim applies to all instances instead of some.
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Generalization
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A type of literary work, such as a novel or poem; there are also subgenres, such as science fiction or sonnet, within the larger genres.
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Genre
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The excessive pride of ambition that leads a tragic hero to disregard warnings of impending doom, eventually causing his or her downfall.
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Hubris
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Anything that causes laughter or amusement; up until the end of the REnaissance, it meant a person's temperament.
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Humor
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Deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis.
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Hyperbole
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