• 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