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| 14003057575 | allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 0 | |
| 14003063403 | analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 1 | |
| 14003067159 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 2 | |
| 14003069947 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 3 | |
| 14003073285 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 4 | |
| 14003084436 | antithesis | Direct opposite | 5 | |
| 14003084437 | assertion | a declaration or statement | 6 | |
| 14003088551 | assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 7 | |
| 14003093079 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 8 | |
| 14003103203 | claim of fact | asserts that something is true or not true | 9 | |
| 14003107360 | claim of policy | proposes a change | 10 | |
| 14003112581 | claim of value | argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong | 11 | |
| 14003115901 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 12 | |
| 14003115902 | compound sentence | a sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions | 13 | |
| 14003119869 | concession | Something given up or yielded | 14 | |
| 14003124546 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 15 | |
| 14003132325 | counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 16 | |
| 14003132327 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 17 | |
| 14003137124 | deduction | the process of moving from a general rule to a specific example | 18 | |
| 14003141046 | diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 19 | |
| 14003146029 | figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | 20 | |
| 14003149884 | first-hand evidence | Evidence based on something the writer knows, whether it's from personal experience, observations, or general knowledge of events. | 21 | |
| 14003155849 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 22 | |
| 14003155850 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 23 | |
| 14003160575 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 24 | |
| 14003165022 | induction | the process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization | 25 | |
| 14003165023 | irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | 26 | |
| 14003169279 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 27 | |
| 14003174229 | logos | Appeal to logic or reason | 28 | |
| 14003180939 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 29 | |
| 14003183434 | modifier | a word, phrase, or clause that qualifies or describes another word, phrase, or clause | 30 | |
| 14003183435 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 31 | |
| 14003188740 | pathos | Appeal to emotion | 32 | |
| 14003191620 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 33 | |
| 14003198696 | persona | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | 34 | |
| 14003202688 | personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 35 | |
| 14003223445 | polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural | 36 | |
| 14003226527 | qualifier | a word or phrase that clarifies, modifies, or limits the meaning of another word or phrase | 37 | |
| 14003230204 | qualitative evidence | evidence supported by reason, tradition, or precedent | 38 | |
| 14003239885 | quantitative evidence | includes things that can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numbers | 39 | |
| 14003242870 | rebuttal | a refutation or contradiction | 40 | |
| 14003247684 | refutation | a denial of the validity of an opposing argument | 41 | |
| 14003247685 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 42 | |
| 14003251152 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 43 | |
| 14003255721 | second-hand evidence | Evidence that is accessed through research, reading, and investigation. It includes factual and historical information, expert opinion, and quantitative data. | 44 | |
| 14003258619 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 45 | |
| 14003258620 | syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 46 | |
| 14003262593 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 47 | |
| 14003267560 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 48 | |
| 14003292746 | ad hominem | a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute | 49 | |
| 14003292747 | ad populum | This fallacy occurs when evidence boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do." | 50 | |
| 14003296798 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 51 | |
| 14003300263 | appeal to false authority | This fallacy occurs when someone who has no expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority. | 52 | |
| 14003303699 | bandwagon appeal | The argument that since something is popular or everybody is doing it, so should you. | 53 | |
| 14003309501 | begging the question | A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt. | 54 | |
| 14003313078 | circular reasoning | a fallacy in which the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence | 55 | |
| 14003316346 | equivocation | the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication | 56 | |
| 14003320878 | false dilemma | A fallacy of oversimplification that offers a limited number of options (usually two) when in fact more options are available. | 57 | |
| 14003324225 | faulty analogy | a fallacy that occurs when an analogy compares two things that are not comparable | 58 | |
| 14003326906 | hasty generalization | A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence. | 59 | |
| 14003331310 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 60 | |
| 14003337850 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 61 | |
| 14003341291 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 62 | |
| 14003341324 | polemic | a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something | 63 | |
| 14003348732 | post hoc ergo propter hoc | This fallacy is Latin for "after which therefore because of which," meaning that it is incorrect to always claim that something is a cause just because it happened earlier. One may loosely summarize this fallacy by saying that correlation does not imply causation. | 64 | |
| 14003360213 | Rogerian argument | acknowledges the validity of the opposition's positions rather than attacking them | 65 | |
| 14003367325 | straw man | A fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea. | 66 | |
| 14003367326 | syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 67 | |
| 14003370946 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 68 |
