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| 12097629436 | ad hominem | a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute | 0 | |
| 12097629484 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 1 | |
| 12097633514 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 2 | |
| 12097638305 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 3 | |
| 12097642621 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 4 | |
| 12097646568 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 5 | |
| 12097664491 | dependent clause | A clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb | 6 | |
| 12097669202 | etymology | the study of word origins | 7 | |
| 12097674288 | False Analogy | When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them. | 8 | |
| 12097679871 | Infinitive | to + verb | 9 | |
| 12097686128 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 10 | |
| 12097709101 | parenthetical | explaining the main idea or topic | 11 | |
| 12097727468 | Poisoning the Well | a person or character is introduced with language that suggests that he is not at all reliable before the listener/reader knows anything about him | 12 | |
| 12097766170 | predicate nominative | one of the two main parts of a sentence or clause modifying the subject and including the verb objects or phrases governed by the verb. | 13 | |
| 12097799156 | Red Herring | A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion | 14 | |
| 12097809582 | straw man | A fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea. | 15 | |
| 12097815476 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 16 | |
| 12097822400 | thesis | a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. | 17 |
