3487389403 | logos | logic with evidence | 0 | |
3487389404 | pathos | emotion | 1 | |
3487554620 | ethos | character and credentials | 2 | |
3487558610 | arguments of fact | did something happen | 3 | |
3487558611 | arguments of definition | what is the nature of the thing | 4 | |
3487561751 | arguments of evaluation | what is the quality of the thing | 5 | |
3487564637 | proposal arguments | what action should be taken | 6 | |
3487585293 | qualifiers | words or phrases that place limits on claims | 7 | |
3487592664 | metonymy | an entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations | 8 | |
3487613836 | synecdoche | a part of something used to refer to the whole | 9 | |
3487627629 | hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 10 | |
3487629547 | litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. | 11 | |
3487635600 | antonomasia | the use of a title, epithet, or descriptive phrase in the place of a name | 12 | |
3487657332 | gustatory | taste imagery | 13 | |
3487657360 | tactile | touch imagery | 14 | |
3487659992 | olfactory | smell imagery | 15 | |
3487664596 | apostrophe | A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | 16 | |
3487684995 | double entendre | a word or expression that can be understood in two different ways, but the author has purposely left vague | 17 | |
3487711983 | zeugma | A trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning. | 18 | |
3487723828 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 19 | |
3487742082 | anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. | 20 | |
3487745735 | antithesis | the use of parallel structure to call attention to contrasts or opposites | 21 | |
3487759398 | anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 22 | |
3487765225 | epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 23 | |
3487769699 | peripheris | the substitution of an attributive word or phrase for a proper name, usually suggesting a personality characteristic | 24 | |
3488007759 | asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions between related clauses | 25 | |
3488028942 | polysyndeton | the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession | 26 | |
3488037939 | loose/cumulative sentence | main clause at beginning with multiple clauses after | 27 | |
3488048722 | periodic sentence | main clause at end using organized clauses | 28 |
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