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| 5844011876 | erotema | Asking a rhetorical question to the reader as a transition or as a thought provoking tool before proceeding |  | 0 |
| 5844044945 | hypophora | Consists of raising one or more questions and then proceeding to answer them, usually at some length. |  | 1 |
| 5844054010 | antimetabole | Repetition in reverse order |  | 2 |
| 5844102534 | liotes | understatement by using double negatives ("not too bad", "she is not a beauty queen"); a type of understatement | 3 | |
| 5844107897 | meiosis | understatement used for effect; a type of understatement; may use sarcasm belittles or downplays details | 4 | |
| 5844129293 | irony | A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. | 5 | |
| 5844134082 | asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions |  | 6 |
| 5844136726 | polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions |  | 7 |
| 5844150217 | syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. |  | 8 |
| 5844153462 | enthymeme | A syllogism in which the major premises is unstated and widely known and accepted | 9 | |
| 5844164510 | deductive reasoning | inference by reasoning from the general to the specific | 10 | |
| 5844182591 | inductive reasoning | A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations; collection of observable data that leads to a conclusion | 11 | |
| 5844194464 | claim | An assertion (belief), usually supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 5844201048 | classical argument | a six-part approach to making an argument that includes a section of each of the following: exordium (introduction), narratio (background information), proposition (thesis), confirmation(proof), refutation (addressing counterarguments), peroratio (conclusion) | 13 | |
| 5844225565 | warrant | an underlying assumption or basic principle that connects data and claim; often implied rather than explicit | 14 | |
| 5848022772 | Toulmin method | - effective way of getting the how and why levels of the arguments we read (includes claim/qualifier, data, warrant, backing and rebuttal) |  | 15 |
| 5848063342 | claim of fact | A claim that asserts the factual reality of something; can be proven or verified with data | 16 | |
| 5848074213 | claim of definition | claiming what something is, what its like, or how its interpreted Answer questions about how to define something or classify it | 17 | |
| 5848070577 | claim of value | A claim maintaining that something is good or bad, beneficial or detrimental, or another evaluative criterion | 18 | |
| 5848087113 | claim of policy | A claim maintaining that a course of action should or should not be taken; describes a problem and suggests an organizational way to solve it | 19 | |
| 5848284049 | claim of cause and effect | A claim that focuses on the connections between events and outcomes. | 20 | |
| 5848515322 | backing | shows the logic used in the warrant is realistic in theory; doesn't necessarily prove the claim just supports your warrant | 21 | |
| 5848521269 | qualifier | words like usually, probably, maybe, in most cases, and most likely that are used to limit or propose conditions on claims | 22 | |
| 5848531019 | rebuttal | refutation; response with contrary evidence | 23 | |
| 5848534163 | counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. | 24 | |
| 5849855437 | simple sentence | a sentence with one independent clause ex. The children played in the snow. | 25 | |
| 5849863056 | complex sentence | a sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses ex. Ethan was aware that, in regard to the important question of surgical intervention, the female opinion of the neighborhood was divided, some glorying in the prestige conferred by operations while others shunned them as indelicate. | 26 | |
| 5849882208 | compound sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses joined by a conjunction ex. Her pleadings still came to him between short sobs, but he no longer heard what she was saying. | 27 | |
| 5849900474 | compound-complex sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses ex. He bent down, feeling in the obscurity for the glassy slide worn by preceding coasters, and placed the runners carefully between its edges. | 28 | |
| 5850042795 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. The independent clause is at the end of the sentence | 29 | |
| 5850054200 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |  | 30 |
| 5850281477 | Declarative Sentence | puts a thought in the form of a declaration, opinion, belief, or assertion | 31 | |
| 5850290272 | Interrogative | puts a thought into a question | 32 | |
| 5850295238 | Imperative Sentence | gives a command -authoritative expresses a command or request | 33 | |
| 5850303888 | Exclamatory Sentence | makes an exclamation | 34 | |
| 5856752401 | anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order | 35 | |
| 5861050051 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 36 |
