- New terms:
- zeugma: a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).
- antithesis:
- a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
- a contrast or opposition between two things.
- a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins”
- induction: Inductive reasoning is often used in applications that involve prediction, forecasting, or behavior. Here is an example:
- Every tornado I have ever seen in the United States rotated counterclockwise, and I have seen dozens of them.
- We see a tornado in the distance, and we are in the United States.
- I conclude that the tornado we see right now must be rotating counterclockwise.
- So in inductive reasoning, you take premises that are or have proven to be continuously true, and you make a claim based on those premises.
- analogy: a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
- anecdote: a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
- Over the next couple of weeks make sure you have these words: Vocab: alloy/unalloyed, nostalgia, adulation, prodigy, oddity, monotony, single-mindedness, sullen, ambivalence, empathy, pensive, sentimental, morose, dejected
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