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| 2905774279 | anaphora | A figure that repeats the first word in succeeding phrases or clauses. It works best in an emotional address before a crowd. | 0 | |
| 2905779073 | chiasmus | Arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern of X Y Y X. It is often short and summarizes a main idea. ("Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.") | 1 | |
| 2905783323 | enthymeme | Rhetoric's version of the syllogism. It stakes a claim and then bases it on commonly accepted opinion. A little packet of logic, it can provide protein to an argument filled with emotion. | 2 | |
| 2905785412 | ethos | Argument by character, one of the three "appeals" | 3 | |
| 2905787820 | idiom | Inseparable words with a single meaning | 4 | |
| 2905791719 | kairos | The rhetorical art of seizing the occasion which covers both timing and the appropriate medium | 5 | |
| 2905793446 | litotes | The figure of ironic understatement, usually negative ("We are not amused") | 6 | |
| 2905795168 | logos | Argument by logic, one of the three "appeals" | 7 | |
| 2905798070 | metaphor | A figure that makes something represent something else | 8 | |
| 2905800624 | pathos | Argument by emotion, one of the three "appeals" | 9 | |
| 2905806348 | polysyndeton | A figure that links clauses with a repeated conjunction | 10 | |
| 2905809652 | red herring | The fallacy of distraction | 11 | |
| 2905812506 | slippery slope | The fallacy of dire consequences. It assumes that one choice will necessarily lead to a cascading series of bad choices. | 12 | |
| 2905813987 | straw man fallacy | Instead of dealing with the actual issue, it attacks a weaker version of the argument | 13 | |
| 2905815977 | synecdoche | The scale-changing figure. It swaps a genus for a species, or a species for a genus. | 14 | |
| 2905820610 | rhetoric | The art of persuasion | 15 | |
| 2905827702 | antithesis | The figure of contrasting ideas | 16 | |
| 2905830373 | fallacy begging the question | assuming something to be true that needs proof | 17 | |
| 2905837000 | neologism | The making up of new words | 18 | |
| 2905838206 | metonymy | A figure of swap. It makes a part stand for the whole, or vice versa. | 19 | |
| 2905842394 | tautology | The redundancy. It's often used in politics to mislead. | 20 | |
| 2907167491 | hasty generalization | uses too few example and interprets them broadly | 21 | |
| 2907233553 | Alliteration | The repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or lines in a poem | 22 | |
| 2907244545 | Analogy | A comparison that points out similarities between two dissimilar things | 23 | |
| 2907255949 | Hyperbole | Overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect | 24 | |
| 2907258933 | Irony | A mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm; A state of affairs of events that is the reverse of what might have been expected. | 25 | |
| 2908365275 | concessio | You seem to agree with your opponent, but only use it to your advantage | 26 | |
| 2908378523 | the fallacy of reductio ad absudrum | taking an opponents argument to its illogical conclusion. A fallacy in formal logic | 27 |
