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| 2967238916 | ad hominem | latin for "to the man," this fallacy refers to the specific diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker. If you argue that a park in your community should not be renovated because the person supported it was arrested during a domestic dispute, then you are guilty of this fallacy | 0 | |
| 2967258930 | ad populum (bandwagon appeal) | latin for "to the people" this fallacy occurs when evidence used to defend and argument boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing" | 1 | |
| 2967268026 | allegory | a literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely. Characters in an allegory are frequently personifications of abstract ideas and are given names that refer to these ideas | 2 | |
| 2967279228 | alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words or syllables in sequence | 3 | |
| 2967285644 | allusion | brief reference to a person, an event, or a place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art. | 4 | |
| 2967292506 | analogy | a comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. Often an analogy uses something simple or familiar to explain something complex or unfamiliar | 5 | |
| 2967301401 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of the successive phrases, clauses or lines | 6 | |
| 2967308751 | anecdote | a brief story used to illustrate a point or claim | 7 | |
| 2967311164 | annotation | the taking of notes directly on a text | 8 | |
| 2967314851 | antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order | 9 | |
| 2967325792 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 10 | |
| 2967437859 | apostrophe | a direct address to an abstraction (such as Time), a thing (the Wind) , an animal, or an imaginary or absent person | 11 | |
| 2967446265 | appeal to false authority | this fallacy occurs when someone who has no credibility to speak on an issue is cited as an authority. A TV star, for instance, is not a medical expert, though a pharmaceutical advertisers often use such celebrities to endorse products | 12 | |
| 2967457759 | archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | 13 | |
| 2967461949 | argument | a process of reasoned inquiry. A persuasive discourse resulting in a coherent and considered movement from a claim to conclusion | 14 | |
| 2967472198 | Aristotelian triangle | rhetorical triangle (text = interior of triangle) |  | 15 |
| 2967487965 | assertion | a process that represents a claim or thesis | 16 | |
| 2967490397 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words | 17 | |
| 2967494276 | assumption | warrant: expresses the assumption necessarily shared by the speaker and the audience | 18 | |
| 2967502795 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinating phrases, clauses and words | 19 | |
| 2988233876 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text. Most texts likely to have multiple ___________(s). | 20 | |
| 2988237428 | backing | In the Toulmin model. backing consists of further assurances or data without which the assumption lacks authority | 21 | |
| 2988239877 | bandwagon appeal | ad populum | 22 | |
| 2988241838 | begging the question (begs; question) | a fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is doubt. It "_____" a ___________ whether the support itself is sound | 23 | |
| 2988249651 | bias | a prejudice or preconceived notion that prevents a person form approaching a topic in a neutral or objective way. While you can be ______(ed) towards something, the most common usage has a negative connotation | 24 | |
| 2988262265 | blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter (Robert Frost, "Mending Wall") | 25 | |
| 2988266257 | caesura | a pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated, sometimes not, that often mirrors natural speech (ex: The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.) | 26 | |
| 2988274612 | characterization | the method by which the author builds, or reveals, a character; it can be direct or indirect | 27 | |
| 2988278217 | indirect characterization | the author shows rather than tells us what a character is like through what the character says, does, or thinks through what others say about the character | 28 | |
| 2988282382 | direct characterization | occurs when the narrator tells the reader who a character is by describing the background, motivation, temperament, or appearance of a character | 29 | |
| 2988286904 | circular reasoning | a fallacy in which the argument repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence | 30 | |
| 2988290832 | claim | also called an assertion or proposition, states the argument's main idea or position, differs from a topic or subject in that a _______ has to be arguable | 31 | |
| 2988297343 | claim of fact | asserts that something is true or not true | 32 | |
| 2988300939 | claim of policy | proposes a change | 33 |
