Vocabulary Presentation – Group j

1. Vocabulary Presentation – Group j Terms : Interference - Oxymoron

2. Interference • An act of getting in the way, or causing problems. • Football: Pass Interference – when a defensive player gets in the way of an offensive player receiving a pass.

3. Invective • Harsh, insulting, or abusive word or expression • Calling a person a chicken when they are unwilling to jump off the top of a building

4. Irony • Use of words to convey a meaning opposite its literal meaning

5. Logic • Describes valid reasoning in some activity.

6. Logical Fallacy • A fallacy in logical argumentation. • A fallacy is a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning • So a “logical fallacy” is, “a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning,” in Logical argumentation

7. Logos • Persuading the audience through the use of logical proof.

8. Metaphor • a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. • “She’s a walking dictionary”

9. Metonymy • a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”

10. Monologue • a prolonged talk or discourse by a single speaker, especially one dominating or monopolizing a conversation.

11. Motif • . a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.

12. Narrator • a person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.

13. Onomatopoeia • the use of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical, dramatic, or poetic effect.

14. Oxymoron • a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”