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| 6477930372 | Anaphora | repetition of the first word of a clause | 0 | |
| 6477938343 | antihesis | support any friend, oppose any foe. requires parallel structure and contrast to priorstaement | 1 | |
| 6477955271 | archaic diction | old fashioned word choice | 2 | |
| 6477964764 | asserrtion | presentationj of direct claim | 3 | |
| 6477967101 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between clauses | 4 | |
| 6477980919 | circular reasoning | repeating a claim for evidence, you cant give me a C im an A student | 5 | |
| 6477990432 | claim of policy | presents a proposal of change | 6 | |
| 6477997951 | closed thesis | thesis that provides all the arguments the writer will pinpoint | 7 | |
| 6478009324 | concession | acknowledging that an opposing argument may be true | 8 | |
| 6478018926 | cumulative sentence | stating a complete main idea then following it by adding onto/it building it up | 9 | |
| 6478045821 | deduction | major premise + minor premise = conclusion | 10 | |
| 6478057473 | enthymeme | you should take her class because i learned a lot from her last year. Implied premise to be taken away from claim. | 11 | |
| 6478081187 | equivocation | do not trust atoms the make up everything double meaning term used to deceive | 12 | |
| 6478139511 | faulty analogy | cars kill 30,000 a year, ban cars. incomparable things | 13 | |
| 6478188260 | first hand evidence | Evidence based on something the writer knows, whether it's from personal experience, observations, or general knowledge of events | 14 | |
| 6478211629 | hasty generalization | drinking isn't bad for your body; my grandpa drank everyday and lived to 90 | 15 | |
| 6478230423 | hortative sentence | call to action or exploration | 16 | |
| 6478235320 | imperative sentence | used to command | 17 | |
| 6478245297 | inversion | inverted order of the words in sentence | 18 | |
| 6478278790 | logical fallacy | weakness in an argument lack of logical connections | 19 | |
| 6478288512 | loaded question | Asking a question that has an assumption built into it so that it can't be answered without appearing guilty. | 20 | |
| 6478295919 | black-or-white | Where two alternative states are presented as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist. | 21 | |
| 6478306933 | ad hominem | Attacking your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument. | 22 | |
| 6478317486 | appeal to authority | Saying that because an authority thinks something, it must therefore be true | 23 | |
| 6478330477 | burden of proof | the fallacy that because an argument cannot be proven wrong, it is correct | 24 | |
| 6478343778 | nomilization | turning a verb into a noun | 25 | |
| 6478352395 | oxymoron | peaceful revolution | 26 | |
| 6478372708 | polemic | hostile argument establishment of authority over all through argument | 27 | |
| 6478410833 | propaganda | the spread of information to further propose or promote a cause | 28 | |
| 6478416902 | qualifier | usually, maybe, in most cases, most likely, to lessen the absolute of a claim | 29 | |
| 6478432995 | satire | ironically/sarcastically critiquing society | 30 | |
| 6478441264 | second-hand evidence | research gained evidence | 31 | |
| 6478446962 | stance | a speakers attitude towards the audience | 32 | |
| 6478460183 | straw man | over simplifying an argument - if liz says jump of the bridge will you do it | 33 | |
| 6478475797 | synecdoche | part for whole | 34 | |
| 6478482623 | metonymy | attribute for whole | 35 | |
| 6478510719 | understatement | presenting something for less than it is | 36 | |
| 6478529992 | connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word | 37 | |
| 6478533887 | didactic | Didactic words have the primary aim of teaching or instructing | 38 | |
| 6478577135 | euphemism | used to adhere to standards of social or political correctness or to add humor or ironic understatement | 39 | |
| 6478587891 | homily | serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice | 40 | |
| 6478597858 | invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language | 41 | |
| 6478603726 | loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. | 42 | |
| 6478610395 | onomatopoeia | buzz, hiss, hum, crack, whinny, and murmur | 43 | |
| 6478614789 | parallelism | refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. | 44 | |
| 6478617279 | parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 45 | |
| 6478621303 | periodic sentence | a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end | 46 | |
| 6478631145 | semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words | 47 | |
| 6478637392 | wit | A witty statement is humorous, while suggesting the speaker's verbal power in creating ingenious and perceptive remarks. | 48 | |
| 6478647408 | hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 49 | |
| 6478650922 | extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work | 50 | |
| 6497386492 | Antithesis | 51 | ||
| 6497386493 | Totalitarian | 52 | ||
| 6497389085 | Peratatation | 53 | ||
| 6497392169 | Antimatabole | 54 | ||
| 6497392170 | Polysydeton | 55 |
