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| 3598982728 | accismus | a figure of coyness, "Oh, you shouldn't have" | 0 | |
| 3598982729 | ad hominem | character attack; attack on someones previous failures or lifestyle, ethos | 1 | |
| 3598982730 | adianoeta | figure of hidden meaning; meant to be understood by part of the audience in one way, and part in another way | 2 | |
| 3598982731 | a fortiori | Argument of Strength; if something less likely is true, then something more likely is bound to be true; if you have accomplished a difficult thing, you're more likely to accomplish an easier one | 3 | |
| 3598982732 | anadiplosis | builds one thought on top of another by taking the last word of the clause and using it in the next clause | 4 | |
| 3598982733 | anaphora | repetition of the first word in succeeding phrases or clauses; used in speeches | 5 | |
| 3598982734 | anthropomorphism | attribution of human traits to nonhuman objects/ things | 6 | |
| 3598982735 | antithesis | contrasting ideas | 7 | |
| 3598982736 | aporia | doubt or ignorance; feigned or real | 8 | |
| 3598982737 | begging the question | circular argument; used in tautology; or speech without beginning explanation | 9 | |
| 3598982738 | Bushism | fractured syntax and code words | 10 | |
| 3598982739 | chiasmus | criss cross figure; "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" | 11 | |
| 3598982740 | circumlocution | talking around an issue; avoids the point; speaker wants to stay ambiguous | 12 | |
| 3598982741 | concessio | agree with your opponent's point, only to use it to your advantage | 13 | |
| 3598982742 | converse accident fallacy | using a bad example to make a generalization; using an exception to the rule | 14 | |
| 3598982743 | What are the three types of rhetorical persuasion? | 1. deliberative 2. demonstrative 3. forensic | 15 | |
| 3598982744 | deliberative rhetoric | argument about choices; focus on future; foundation of democracy | 16 | |
| 3598982745 | demonstrative rhetoric | deals with values; rights vs. wrong | 17 | |
| 3598982746 | forensic (legal) rhetoric | focuses on past; determines guilt or innocence | 18 | |
| 3598982747 | dialectic | logical debate | 19 | |
| 3598982748 | dialogismus | dialogue figure | 20 | |
| 3598982749 | dialysis | this-not-that figure; People take your wisdom more seriously if you put it cryptically; it's the idiot-savant approach EX: "Don't buy the shoes. Buy the colors." | 21 | |
| 3598982750 | diazeugma | play-by-play figure; succession of verbs | 22 | |
| 3598982751 | disinterest | freedom from special interests | 23 | |
| 3598982752 | dubitatio | feigned doubt about your ability to speak well; personal aporia | 24 | |
| 3598982753 | enargia | vivid description that makes an audience believe something is taking place before their very eyes | 25 | |
| 3598982754 | enthymeme | shortened rhetorical syllogism; stakes a claim and bases it on a commonly accepted opinion; packet of logic | 26 | |
| 3598982755 | epergesis | a correction figure, can be in form of appositive | 27 | |
| 3598982756 | epideictic rhetoric | synonym for demonstrative logic | 28 | |
| 3598982757 | equivocation | appears to say one thing while meaning another; to avoid saying the truth or committing oneself | 29 | |
| 3598982758 | eristic | competitive argument for the sake of arguement | 30 | |
| 3598982759 | ethos | argument by character | 31 | |
| 3598982760 | eunoia | disinterest | 32 | |
| 3598982761 | Three Appeals | - ethos - logos - pathos | 33 | |
| 3598982762 | homerism | unabashed use of logic (Homer Simpson) | 34 | |
| 3598982763 | hypophora | asking a rhetorical question and then immediately answering it | 35 | |
| 3598982764 | idiom | inseparable words from a single meaning | 36 | |
| 3598982765 | ignoratio elenchi | fallacy of proving the wrong conclusion | 37 | |
| 3598982766 | innuendo | planting negative ideas in the audience's head; allusive critical assessment | 38 | |
| 3598982767 | jeremiad | prophecy of doom | 39 | |
| 3598982768 | kairos | seizing the occasion; timing and medium | 40 | |
| 3598982769 | leptologia | subtle speech/ quibbling | 41 | |
| 3598982770 | litotes | ironic understatement | 42 | |
| 3598982771 | logos | argument by logic | 43 | |
| 3598982772 | metanoia | self-editing; correct yourself with a stronger point | 44 | |
| 3598982773 | methaphor | makes something represent something else | 45 | |
| 3598982774 | metastasis | figure of thought that skips over an awkward matter | 46 | |
| 3598982775 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing, "the throne"= the queen | 47 | |
| 3598982776 | neologism | newly minted word; coinage | 48 | |
| 3598982777 | non sequitur | irrelevent; point that doesn't follow its predecessor | 49 | |
| 3598982778 | onomatopoeia | noise word; Kaboom! | 50 | |
| 3598982779 | paradigm | rule that arises from examples | 51 | |
| 3598982780 | paralipsis | when you mention something by saying you're not going to mention it | 52 | |
| 3598982781 | paradox | contrary figure; impossible pair | 53 | |
| 3598982782 | paraprosdokian | surprise ending to a thought | 54 | |
| 3598982783 | pathos | argument by emotion | 55 | |
| 3598982784 | periphrasis | circumlocution; ambiguosity | 56 | |
| 3598982785 | petitio principii | begging the question; circular argument | 57 | |
| 3598982786 | polysyndeton | links clauses with repeated conjunction | 58 | |
| 3598982787 | post hoc ergo propter hoc | Chanticleer fallacy; A followed B- therefore B caused A | 59 | |
| 3598982788 | phronesis | practical wisodm | 60 | |
| 3598982789 | prolepsis | anticiption of an opponent's/ audience's objections | 61 | |
| 3598982790 | prosopopoeia | personification | 62 | |
| 3598982791 | quibbling | using careful language to obfuscate | 63 | |
| 3598982792 | red herring | fallacy of distraction | 64 | |
| 3598982793 | reductio ad absurdum | taking an opponent's argument to its illogical conclusion | 65 | |
| 3598982794 | rhetoric | art of persuasuion | 66 | |
| 3598982795 | significatio | benign innuendo, implies more than it says | 67 | |
| 3598982796 | slippery slope | fallacy of dire consequences | 68 | |
| 3598982797 | solecism | illogic, bad grammar or syntax | 69 | |
| 3598982798 | straw man fallacy | attacks a weaker version of the arguement | 70 | |
| 3598982799 | syncrisis | reframing of an argument by redefining it; "not manipulation, Instruction" | 71 | |
| 3598982800 | synecdoche | scale changing figure; makes a part of something stand for the whole | 72 | |
| 3598982801 | tautology | used to mislead; redundancy | 73 | |
| 3598982802 | yogiism | odd sort of sense; idiot/savant | 74 | |
| 3598982803 | anthropomorphism | attribution of human traits to nonhuman creatures or objects; logical fallacy | 75 | |
| 3598982804 | begging the question | - tautology (circular reasoning) - leaves out a beginning explanation - assumes conclusion of argument within its premise (indirect, hidden) - "to invite the question" (as in "This begs the question of whether...") - perverting a syllogism "Chevys are unreliable cars. I drive a Ford. That's why I cant count on a Chevy." | 76 | |
| 3598982805 | either/or | "Either you're with us, or you're with the terrorists" (Bush) - limiting options (false dilemma) | 77 | |
| 3598982806 | false dilemma | offers the aud two choices when more exist aka "either/or" fallacy | 78 | |
| 3598982807 | ad hominem | - character attack (attack on ethos) "She's a liar and a fake." | 79 | |
| 3598982808 | hasty generalizations | - racial profiling for ex. | 80 | |
| 3598982809 | false analogy | "Hillary is like her husband, a liar, adulterer, and a blemish on the office." | 81 | |
| 3598982810 | ad misericordiam | - An appeal to pity - tries to win support for an argument by exploiting their opponent's pity/guilt | 82 | |
| 3598982811 | post hoc, ergo propter hoc | - false causal relationship - B follows A so A causes B Whenever I garden, the stocks drop. My gardening causes stocks to drop. | 83 | |
| 3598982812 | non sequitor | - irrelevance - point that doesn't follow the predecessor "You know what your prob is? Whoa, did you see that car?" "Allison has never lied/cheated. Therefore, she'd make an excellent ASB prez" (ask ^: Could also be begging the Q of whether the only qualification needed to make a prez excellent is honesty?) | 84 | |
| 3598982813 | equivocation | - appears to say one thing while meaning something else - when the writer uses a word's multiple meanings and changes the meanings in the middle of the argument without telling the audience about the shift - w/ vague or ambiguous words "I've did not have sexual relations with that woman" (changes meaning of "sexual relations" to make its def. exclusive to sexual acts with penetration; manip. def. that the prosecution offers) | 85 | |
| 3598982814 | Straw Man | - instead of dealing with the actual issue, it attacks a weaker version of the argument - setting up the opposing side to look unreasonable by misrepresenting what they actually stand for | 86 | |
| 3598982815 | red herring | - distraction - changing the subject to something of irrelevance | 87 | |
| 3598982816 | ignoring the question | - similar to red herring (think of Trump) - shifts focus from orig. topic/question, supplying an unrelated argument. | 88 | |
| 3598982817 | a fortiori | - If something less likely is true, then something more likely is bound to be true. "If a volcano is going to erupt on Sunday, then it's prob gonna rain on Sunday too" "I ran a marathon last week, I can run a 10k tomorrow" | 89 | |
| 3598982818 | anthropomorphism | - attributes human traits to creatures/objects - common to owners of pets | 90 | |
| 3598982819 | ignoratio elenchi | - proving the wrong conclusion (irrelevant) - fails to address the issue in question. - missing the point. | 91 | |
| 3598982820 | reductio ad absurdum | - takes an opponent's argument and reduces it to absurdity | 92 | |
| 3598982821 | slippery slope | - dire consequences - assumes one choice WILL lead to a cascading series of bad choices "If I fail this test then I'll fail the class, learn nothing, get rejected by prestigious colleges, and die" - Gina | 93 | |
| 3598982822 | false comparison | two things are similar, so they must be the same | 94 | |
| 3598982823 | fallacy of association | - aka all natural fallacy - "Natural ingredients are good for you, so anything called "natural" is healthful" | 95 | |
| 3598982824 | appeal to popularity | "Other kids get to do it, so why don't I?" | 96 | |
| 3598982825 | fallacy of ignorance | If it's not been proven, it must be false | 97 | |
| 3598982826 | allegory | extended metaphor of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words | 98 | |
| 3598982827 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words | 99 | |
| 3598982828 | allusion | a reference in a written or spoken text to another text or to some particular body of knowledge | 100 | |
| 3598982829 | anadiplosis | the repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 101 | |
| 3598982830 | anaphora | the repetition of the group of words at the beginning successive clauses (a kind of parallel structure) | 102 | |
| 3598982831 | anecdote | a brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience's attention or to support a generalization or claim | 103 | |
| 3598982832 | antimetabole | the repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order (but more specific than chiasmus) | 104 | |
| 3598982833 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure | 105 | |
| 3598982834 | antihimeria | the substitution of one part of speech for another, "verbing" | 106 | |
| 3598982835 | apologist | a person or character who makes a case for some controversial, even contentious, position | 107 | |
| 3598982836 | apology | an elaborate statement justifying some controversial, even, contentions, position | 108 | |
| 3598982837 | apostrophe | type of soliloquy where nature is addressed as though human | 109 | |
| 3598982838 | appeal | one of three strategies for persuading audiences (logos, ethos, pathos) | 110 | |
| 3598982839 | appositive | a noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning | 111 | |
| 3598982840 | Aristotelian triangle | a diagram showing the relations of writer or speaker, audience, and text in a rhetorical situation | 112 | |
| 3598982841 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words | 113 | |
| 3598982842 | asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions between related clauses | 114 | |
| 3598982843 | begging the question | the situation that results when a writer or speaker constructs an argument on an assumption that the audience does not accept (like a syllogism where the conclusion is used as one of the premises) | 115 | |
| 3598982844 | canon | one of the traditional elements of rhetorical composition-- invention, arrangement, style, memory, or delivery | 116 | |
| 3598982845 | causal relationship | cause and effect; "if x is the cause, then y is the effect" | 117 | |
| 3598982846 | claim | the ultimate conclusion, generalization, or point that a syllogism or enthymeme expresses. the point of an argument | 118 | |
| 3598982847 | complex sentence | a sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses | 119 | |
| 3598982848 | compound-complex sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses | 120 | |
| 3598982849 | compound sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses | 121 | |
| 3598982850 | compound subject | the construction in which two or more nouns, noun phrases, or noun clauses constitute the grammatical subject of a clause | 122 | |
| 3598982851 | conclusion (of a syllogism) | the ultimate point of generalization that a syllogism expresses | 123 | |
| 3598982852 | confirmation | the part of a speech in which the speaker or writer would offer proof or demonstration of the central idea | 124 | |
| 3598982853 | connotation | the implied meaning of a word | 125 | |
| 3598982854 | data | facts, statistics, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization, conclusion | 126 | |
| 3598982855 | deductive reasoning | reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demonstrates the general principle | 127 | |
| 3598982856 | denotation | the "dictionary definition" of a word | 128 | |
| 3598982857 | diction | word choice, which is viewed on scales of formality/informality, concreteness/abstraction, Latinate derivation/Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative value/connotative value | 129 | |
| 3598982858 | double entendre | the double (or multiple) meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous | 130 | |
| 3598982859 | ellipsis | the omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of a passage | 131 | |
| 3598982860 | enthymeme | syllogism with one premise instead of two | 132 | |
| 3598982861 | epistrophe | the repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses | 133 | |
| 3598982862 | epithet | a word or phrase adding a characteristic to a person's name | 134 | |
| 3598982863 | ethos | the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator | 135 | |
| 3598982864 | euphemism | an indirect expression of unpleasant information in such a way as to lessen its impact | 136 | |
| 3598982865 | exordium | the introduction of a speech | 137 | |
| 3598982866 | figures of rhetoric | schemes-- that is, variations from typical word or sentence formation-- and tropes, which are variations from typical patterns of thought | 138 | |
| 3598982867 | hyperbole | an exaggeration for effect | 139 | |
| 3598982868 | imagery | language that evokes particular sensations or emotionally rich experiences in a reader | 140 | |
| 3598982869 | implied metaphor | a metaphor embedded in a sentence rather than expressed directly as a sentence | 141 | |
| 3598982870 | inductive reasoning | reasoning that begins by citing a number of specific instances or examples and then shows how collectively they constitute a general principle | 142 | |
| 3598982871 | irony | writing or speaking that implies the contrary of what is actually written or spoken | 143 | |
| 3598982872 | jargon | the specialized vocabulary of a particular group | 144 | |
| 3598982873 | litotes | form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite | 145 | |
| 3598982874 | logos | the appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its argument or central ideas | 146 | |
| 3598982875 | loose sentence | a sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement | 147 | |
| 3598982876 | metaphor | an implied comparison that does not use the word "like" or "as" | 148 | |
| 3598982877 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself ie "the crown"=the monarch | 149 | |
| 3598982878 | onomatopoeia | a literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning | 150 | |
| 3598982879 | oxymoron | juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings | 151 | |
| 3598982880 | paradox | a statement that seems untrue on the surface but is true nevertheless | 152 | |
| 3598982881 | parallelism | a set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph | 153 | |
| 3598982882 | parenthesis | an insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence | 154 | |
| 3598982883 | pathos | the appeal of a text to the emotions or interests of the audience | 155 | |
| 3598982884 | periodic sentence | a sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and/or complement; A periodic sentence has the main clause or predicate at the end. | 156 | |
| 3598982885 | periphrasis | the substitution of an attributive word or phrase for a proper name, or the use of a proper name to suggest a personality characteristic (different from epithet; almost like a metaphor) | 157 | |
| 3598982886 | peroration | the part of the speech in which the speaker would draw together the entire argument and include material designed to compel the audience to think or act in a way consonant with | 158 | |
| 3598982887 | persona | the character that a writer or speaker conveys to the audience | 159 | |
| 3598982888 | persuasion | the changing of people's minds or actions by language | 160 | |
| 3598982889 | petitio principi | begging the question | 161 | |
| 3598982890 | point of view | the perspective or source of a piece of a writing | 162 | |
| 3598982891 | major premise | the first premise in a syllogism | 163 | |
| 3598982892 | minor premise | the second premise in a syllogism | 164 | |
| 3598982893 | pun | a play on words | 165 | |
| 3598982894 | recursive | referring to the moving back and forth from invention to revision in the process of writing | 166 | |
| 3598982895 | refutation | the part of a speech in which the speaker would anticipate objections to the points being raised and counter them | 167 | |
| 3598982896 | rhetor | the speaker who uses elements of rhetoric effectively in oral or written text | 168 | |
| 3598982897 | rhetoric | the art of analyzing all the choices involving language that a writer, speaker, reader, or listener might make in a situation so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective | 169 | |
| 3598982898 | rhetorical choices | the particular choices a writer or speaker makes to achieve meaning, purpose, or effect | 170 | |
| 3598982899 | rhetorical intention | involvement and investment in and ownership of a piece of writing | 171 | |
| 3598982900 | rhetorical question | a question posed by the speaker or writer not to seek an answer but instead to affirm or deny a point simply by asking a question about it | 172 | |
| 3598982901 | rhetorical situation | the convergence in a situation of exigency | 173 | |
| 3598982902 | rhetorical triangle | a diagram showing the relations of writer or speaker, reader or listener, and text in a rhetorical situation | 174 | |
| 3598982903 | simile | a type of comparison that uses the word "like" or "as" | 175 | |
| 3598982904 | six-part oration | a speech consisting of exordium, narration, partition, confirmation, refutation, and peroration | 176 | |
| 3598982905 | soliloquy | dialogue in which a character speaks aloud to himself or herself | 177 | |
| 3598982906 | style | the choices that writers or speakers make in language for effect | 178 | |
| 3598982907 | subordinate clause | a group of words that includes a subject and verb but that cannot stand on its own as a sentence; also calls dependent clause | 179 | |
| 3598982908 | syllogism | logical reasoning from inarguable premises | 180 | |
| 3598982909 | synecdoche | a part of something used to refer to the whole (like a metaphor) | 181 | |
| 3598982910 | tautology | a group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed | 182 | |
| 3598982911 | tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject matter | 183 | |
| 3598982912 | trope | an artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas; use of the word in the sense other than the literal | 184 | |
| 3598982913 | verisimilitude | the quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience | 185 | |
| 3598982914 | voice | the textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona | 186 | |
| 3598982915 | zeugma | a trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning | 187 | |
| 3598982916 | personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | 188 | |
| 3598982917 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 189 | |
| 3598982918 | bathos | an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous | 190 | |
| 3598982919 | cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions (phrases or clauses) that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea. | 191 | |
| 3598982920 | balanced setence | a sentence that is made up of two parts that are roughly equal in length, importance, and grammatical structure | 192 | |
| 3598982921 | inversion | the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. There are two types of inversion: Subject-verb inversion, where the subject and the main verb switch positions and the word order becomes verb + subject | 193 | |
| 3598982922 | anathema | something or someone that one vehemently dislikes | 194 | |
| 3598982923 | aphorism/ epigram | a terse saying, expressing a general truth, principle, or astute observation, and spoken or written in a laconic and memorable form (like an epigram but more profound)/a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way that is often antithetical (humorous); aphorism= more serious | 195 | |
| 3598982924 | narration | writing that tells a story by recounting events. | 196 | |
| 3598982925 | exposition | writing that explains, informs, or analyzes the information | 197 | |
| 3598982926 | description | is writing that tries to describe the idea in order to help the reader visualize it | 198 | |
| 3598982927 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues | 199 | |
| 3598982928 | parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect | 200 | |
| 3598982929 | mock heroic | imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject | 201 | |
| 3598982930 | fable | a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral | 202 | |
| 3598982931 | myth | a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events | 203 | |
| 3598982932 | parable | a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 204 | |
| 3598982933 | simple sentence | a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate | 205 |
