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| 5838080125 | Satire | The use of irony or sarcasm to critique society or an individual | 0 | |
| 5838080126 | Irony | using words in a way that conveys the opposite of their literal meaning | 1 | |
| 5838080127 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point | 2 | |
| 5838081431 | Understatement | A figure of speech in which something is presented as less important, dire, urgent, or good than it is, often satiric or comic effect | 3 | |
| 5838088547 | Parody | Imitation of a particular writer or genre for comic effect | 4 | |
| 5838103679 | Repetition | repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer | 5 | |
| 5838114075 | Vernacular | everyday language, including slang, that's used by the people | 6 | |
| 5838127480 | Metaphor | figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. | 7 | |
| 5838138684 | Simile | drawing parallels or comparisons between two unrelated and dissimilar things, using like or as | 8 | |
| 5838144838 | Personification | In which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. | 9 | |
| 5838175243 | Genetic fallacy | Rejecting an argument based on its origins rather than on its own merits; a related form accepts or rejects arguments based in others who endorse or reject those same arguments | 10 | |
| 5838187456 | Vagueness | A lack of clarity or precision in language; words or groups of words are vague when their meaning are in exact or when it is unclear to which things the word or words apply | 11 | |
| 5838194619 | Fallacy | An argument that relies upon faulty reasoning | 12 | |
| 5838197021 | Booby trap | An argument that, while not a fallacy p, might lead an inattentive reader to commit a fallacy | 13 | |
| 5838202450 | Red herring | An argument that pretends to establish a particular conclusion but that really argues for something else entirely | 14 | |
| 5838211252 | Equivocation | A subcategory of vagueness that consists of using a term or expression in an argument in one sense in one place and in another sense in another | 15 | |
| 5838219301 | Straw man | A subcategory of red herring that involves misrepresenting an opponent's position to make it easier to attack | 16 | |
| 5838224031 | Suppressed evidence | A failure to mention or otherwise acknowledge important, relevant evidence; not always a fallacy, but ignoring relevant facts is often a sign of an attempt to mislead | 17 | |
| 5838235822 | False cause | Labeling one thing as the cause of another thing on insufficient or unrepresentative evidence of using evidence that conflicts with established higher-level truths or theories | 18 | |
| 5838244752 | Appeal to authority | Accepting the word of authorities when we lack good reasons for thinking that they have the information we need or when we have think that they might be biased, or when we ought to figure the matter out for ourselves, or when the authority in question is not really an expert in the relevant area | 19 | |
| 5838259547 | Undistributed middle | An argument in which the middle term is undistributed, meaning that not all the instances of things that are C are also instances of things that are A or of B | 20 | |
| 5838272148 | Questionable use of statistics | Employing statistics that are questionable without further support | 21 | |
| 5838284576 | Questionable use of statistics | Fallacy: nine out of ten students pollled want to attend college out of state. Therefore, ninety percent of students at St. Mary's high school hope to leave the state for college | 22 | |
| 5838294627 | Red herring | Fallacy: mom, it's not a big deal that I went over my data limit this month. Aren't you proud of me for getting an A on the math test? | 23 | |
| 5838304060 | Appeal to authority | Fallacy: Michael Jordan is one of the best basketball players ever, and he drives a corvette. Corvettes must be really great cars | 24 | |
| 5838311401 | Undistributed middle | Fallacy: all of the students in the Harry Potter books are wizards. I'm also a student. Therefore, I must be a wizard | 25 | |
| 5838318400 | False cause | Fallacy: Bryce Harper ate a lot of nachos last year and was named MVP. I'm going to eat a lot of nachos so I can one day be a great baseball player | 26 | |
| 5838325605 | Equivocation | Fallacy: Father Costello told me that I should have faith. I have faith that Maryland will win the NCAA basketball championship to year, so Father would be pleased with me | 27 | |
| 5838340471 | Fallacy: my parents told me that broccoli is good for me, so it must be good for me | 28 | ||
| 5838346750 | Fallacy: Senator Jones says we should defund the submarine program. I can't understand why he wants our enemies to attack us | 29 | ||
| 5838350777 | Simple sentence | A sentence that contains a subject and a verb; expresses a single complete thought that can stand in its own | 30 | |
| 5838360062 | Simple sentence | What type of sentence?: the baby cried for food. | 31 | |
| 5838364272 | Compound sentence | Sentence that has two independent clauses; contains two simple sentences joined together by conjunction | 32 | |
| 5838370984 | Compound sentence | What type of sentence?: The shoplifter had stolen clothes, so he ran once he saw the police | 33 | |
| 5838378487 | Complex sentence | Sentence that is an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses; always has a subordinator (as, because, since, after, although, when) or relative pronouns (who, that, which) | 34 | |
| 5838391276 | Complex sentence | What type of sentence? After eating lunch at The Cheesecake Factory, Tim went to the gym to exercise. | 35 | |
| 5838400641 | Compound-complex sentence | Sentence that has two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause | 36 | |
| 5838407469 | Compound-complex sentence | What type of sentence? After the two soccer players lost their game, they joined their other teammates for lunch, and they went to the movies | 37 |
