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| 5334195358 | Ad hominem | When a writer personally attacks his or her opponenet intead of their arguements | 0 | |
| 5334195359 | Allusion | Refrence to something the writer persumes the audience would know | 1 | |
| 5334195360 | Ambiguity | An even, situation, or writing that may be interpreted in more than one way. | 2 | |
| 5334195361 | Analogy | Comparison of two similar but different things | 3 | |
| 5334195362 | Anectdote | Short, simple narrative, often humorous or used as an example | 4 | |
| 5334195363 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause refferef to by pronoun | 5 | |
| 5334195364 | Antithesis | Opposite of the main point | 6 | |
| 5334195365 | Aphorism | Short statement that expresses a general truth or philosophy | 7 | |
| 5334195366 | Appeal to ignorance | What ever has not been proben true mist me false or whatever has not been proben false must be true. | 8 | |
| 5334195367 | Appositive | Two nouns witha vomma inbetween describing something | 9 | |
| 5334195368 | Bandwagon appeal | Believj g in something because wveryome else does | 10 | |
| 5334195369 | Circumlocution | Talking around a subject | 11 | |
| 5334195370 | Cliché | Overused word, phrase or saying | 12 | |
| 5334195371 | Colloquialism | Slang | 13 | |
| 5334195372 | Concession | Giving credit to the other opinion then staing your own | 14 | |
| 5334195373 | Didactic | Intented to instruct | 15 | |
| 5334195374 | Dogmatism | Person believes his or her beliefs are beyond question | 16 | |
| 5334195375 | Equivocation | Speker that hides the entire truth, lyig my onmision | 17 | |
| 5334195376 | Ethos | Appeal to crediblity | 18 | |
| 5334195377 | Euphemism | Nicer way to say something | 19 | |
| 5334195378 | False dichotomy | Two extremes when there are one or more possibilities | 20 | |
| 5334195379 | Figurative language | Writing or speech that is not intended to be literal | 21 | |
| 5334195380 | Gerund | Verb ending in "ing" acting as a noun | 22 | |
| 5334195381 | Hasty generalization | Axe gets you all the girls | 23 | |
| 5334195382 | Hyperbole | Intentional exaggeration | 24 | |
| 5334195383 | Imagery | Clear images of things in writing | 25 | |
| 5334195384 | Inference | Jumping to conclusion | 26 | |
| 5334195385 | Invective | Intended to attack | 27 | |
| 5334195386 | Irony | Contrast between what appears to be true and what is actually true | 28 | |
| 5334195387 | Jargon | Docter talk | 29 | |
| 5334195388 | Juxtaposition | The location of one thing adjacent to abother to create an effect, reveal and attitude. | 30 | |
| 5334195389 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 31 | |
| 5334195390 | Metaphors | Comparison of two things not ising like or as | 32 | |
| 5334195391 | Metonymy | Using an object or person to represent what is associated with it | 33 | |
| 5334195392 | Non sequitur | A sentence that doesnt relate to what comes before it | 34 | |
| 5334195393 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like what they mean | 35 | |
| 5334195394 | Oxymoron | Jumbo shrimp | 36 | |
| 5334195395 | Parallelism | Side by side words that are areanged the same | 37 | |
| 5334195396 | Paradox | Condradictary phrase that is actually true | 38 | |
| 5334195397 | Parody | Mcdiabeties | 39 | |
| 5334195398 | Pedantic | Scholarly | 40 | |
| 5334195399 | Pun | Clever play on words | 41 | |
| 5334195400 | Personification | Giving human like characteristics to non human things | 42 | |
| 5334195401 | Red herring | Attempt to steer away from and important issue, to another that has no meaning or connection to the first | 43 | |
| 5334195402 | Refutation | Aarguing against the opposition | 44 | |
| 5334195403 | Repetition | Repeating words to get point across | 45 | |
| 5334195404 | Retraction | Withdrawl idea or opinion | 46 | |
| 5334195405 | Rhetoric | Art of using persuading in writng | 47 | |
| 5334195406 | Rhetorical question | Are you stupid | 48 | |
| 5334195407 | Satire | Work that mocks topic in order to ridicule | 49 | |
| 5334195408 | Scare tactic | Youll die of you dont buy our product | 50 | |
| 5334195409 | Simile | Like or as | 51 | |
| 5334195410 | Slippery slope | Not dressed up then soon underware | 52 | |
| 5334195411 | Straw man argument | Over simplifation of opponents arguement to make it easier to attack | 53 | |
| 5334195412 | Syllogism | Major premise minor premise that leads to conclusion | 54 | |
| 5334195413 | Symbol | Simething concrete that represents something abstract | 55 | |
| 5334195414 | Synecdoche | 50 masts represent 50 ships | 56 | |
| 5334195415 | Understatement | We have a small problem | 57 | |
| 5334195416 | Wit | Intellectually amusing language | 58 |
