Red herrings are used rather commonly in thriller genres, It mainly consists of clues which are both misleading and distracting from the actual issue, this could be done either intentional or unintentional.
This expression is normally used to claim that the argument at which another person has brought up is entirely irrelevant to the specific question.
A good example of a red herring is "I think that we should make the academic requirements stricter for students. I recommend that you support this because we are in a budget crisis and we do not want our salaries affected."
Like i have said before, red herrings are commonly used in films. Another example which is more related to film language is...The red herring can take in form of a character, which the audience may feel that he is a killer, only to later discover that he is innocent. Or another good example could be that a red herring can take the shape of an item which could be seen as clue to a discovery by the audience, but turns out to be worthless.
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