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| 4432505501 | ad hominem fallacy | a fallacy of logic in which a persons character or motive is attacked instead of the persons argument | 0 | |
| 4432508157 | ad populum fallacy | a fallacy of logic in which the widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make it true or right | 1 | |
| 4432509815 | allegory | a story in which the people, places, and things represent general concepts or moral qualitites | 2 | |
| 4432512228 | allusion | a brief reference to a person. place.event. or passage in work of literature or the bible assumed to be sufficiently well known to be recognized by the reader | 3 | |
| 4432516825 | analogy | a comparison between two thing in which the more complex is explained in terms of the more simple | 4 | |
| 4432519385 | anecdote | a short entertaining account of some happening,frequently personal or biographical | 5 | |
| 4432525353 | anticlimax | a sudden drop from the dignified or important in thought or expression to the commonplace or trivial, often for humorous effect | 6 | |
| 4432528662 | ethos | demonstrates credibility and trustworthiness | 7 | |
| 4432533628 | pathos | speakers appeal to pathos to emotionally motivate the audience | 8 | |
| 4432535612 | logos | speakers appeal to logos by offering clear rational ideas and using specific details to back them up | 9 | |
| 4432546321 | argumentation | exploration of a problem by investigating all sides of it | 10 | |
| 4432547562 | begging the question | a fallacy of logical argument that assumes as true the very thing that one is trying to prove | 11 | |
| 4432558613 | cause and effect | examination of the causes and or effects of a situation or phenomenon | 12 | |
| 4432560264 | chronological ordering | arrangement in the order in which things occur;may move from past to present or present to past | 13 | |
| 4432565053 | classification as means of ordering | arrangement of objects according to class | 14 | |
| 4432566934 | colloquial expression | words and phrases used in everyday speech but avoided in formal writing | 15 | |
| 4432571676 | damning with faint praise | intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication | 16 | |
| 4432573814 | deduction | a form of reasoning that begins with a genratlization, then applies the generalization to a specific case or cases | 17 | |
| 4432576919 | digression | a temporary departure form the main subject in speaking or writing | 18 | |
| 4432579424 | ellipsis (...) | the omission of a word or words necessary for complete construction but understood in context | 19 | |
| 4432584454 | euphemism | the use of a word or phrase that is less direct, but that is also less distasteful or less offensive than another | 20 | |
| 4432589589 | expository writingq | writing that explains or analyzes | 21 | |
| 4432591193 | false dilemma | a fallacy of logical argument which is committed when too few of the available alternatives are considered, and all but one are assessed and deemed impossible or unacceptable | 22 | |
| 4432595405 | hyperbole | an extravagant exaggeration of fact, used either for serious or comic effect | 23 | |
| 4432598769 | imagery | lively descriptions which impress the images of things upon the mind, figures of speech | 24 | |
| 4432602204 | induction | a form of reasoning which works from a body of fact to the formulation of a generalization | 25 | |
| 4432606823 | inverted syntax | reversing the normal word order of a sentence | 26 | |
| 4432609653 | irony | a method of humorous or sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the opposite of their usual meaning | 27 | |
| 4432615773 | litotes | a figure in which an affirmative is expressed by a negation of the contrary | 28 | |
| 4432619643 | metaphor | in which one thing is compared to another by being spoken of as though it were that thingq | 29 | |
| 4432624541 | non sequitur | a statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it | 30 | |
| 4432627037 | order of importance | a method of organizing a paper according to the relative significance of the subtopics | 31 | |
| 4432633257 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which contradictory terms or ideas are combinged | 32 | |
| 4432635755 | parable | short story from which a lesson may be drawn | 33 | |
| 4432637876 | paradox | a statement which seems self contradictory , but which may be true in fact | 34 | |
| 4432640907 | parody | a literary composition which imitates the characteristic style of a serious work or writer and uses its features to treat trivial | 35 | |
| 4432644691 | pedantry | a display of narrow minded and trivial scholarship or arbitrary adherence to rules and forms | 36 | |
| 4432647718 | personification | an inanimate object or abstract concept is endowed with human characteristics | 37 | |
| 4432651644 | periodic sentence structure | a sentence written so that the full meaning cannot be understood until the end | 38 | |
| 4432655128 | persuasion | taking a single position for the purpose of getting others to accept that position | 39 | |
| 4432657769 | post hoc fallacy | occurs when the writer assume that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident | 40 | |
| 4432662893 | satire | a literary work in which vices, abuses, absurdities are held up to ridicule and contempt | 41 | |
| 4432666635 | simile | a figure of speech involving a comparison using like or as | 42 | |
| 4432669198 | spatial ordering | organization of information using spatial cues such as top to bottom | 43 | |
| 4432671754 | syllogism | a form of reasoning in which two statements or premises are made and a logical conclusion is drawn from them, a form of deductive reasoning | 44 | |
| 4432676497 | symbol | something that stands for another thing | 45 | |
| 4432677438 | syntax | the arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship | 46 | |
| 4432680611 | tone | a way of wording or expressing things that expresses an attitude | 47 | |
| 4432682303 | understatement | deliberately representing something as much less than it really is | 48 |
