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| 2792347988 | Attitude | A speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject. | 0 | |
| 2792348780 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish. | 1 | |
| 2792349253 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. | 2 | |
| 2792350646 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). | 3 | |
| 2792351178 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. (For example, in Henry IV, Part hill of flesh.") | 4 | |
| 2792352034 | Epithet | An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. | 5 | |
| 2792352888 | Didactic | Intended to instruct. | 6 | |
| 2792353486 | Circumlocution | An indirect expression; use of wordy or evasive language. | 7 | |
| 2792353973 | Caricature | (n.) A representation (especially in drawing) in which the subject's characteristic features are deliberately exaggerated; (v.) to present someone or something in a deliberately distorted way. | 8 | |
| 2792355288 | Anachromism | When something/someone is chronologically out of place. | 9 | |
| 2792355619 | Parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other. | 10 | |
| 2792356281 | Inverted Sentence | A sentence where the predicate comes before the subject. | 11 | |
| 2792357307 | Juxtaposition | The placement of two items, often contrasting, next to or near each other. | 12 | |
| 2792357947 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") | 13 | |
| 2792358864 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted. Hemingway and the Bible both use extensively. Ex. "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy". | 14 | |
| 2792359528 | Asyndeton | A series of words separated by commas (with no conjunction), e.g. "I came, I saw, I conquered." The parts of the sentence are emphasized equally; in addition, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction speeds up the flow of the sentence. | 15 | |
| 2792360124 | Aphorism | A concisely phrased statement of a truth or opinion. | 16 | |
| 2792360759 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. | 17 | |
| 2792361686 | 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. | 18 | |
| 2792362166 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. | 19 | |
| 2792362530 | Polemic | Controversy; argument; verbal attack. | 20 | |
| 2792363355 | Panegyric | Elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise. | 21 | |
| 2792363749 | Diatribe | A bitter attack on something or someone (unlike a polemic, a diatribe is totally against the subject of the verbal attack). | 22 | |
| 2792365359 | Anecdote | A brief narrative or retelling of a story or event often based on the speaker's own experience. | 23 | |
| 2792366303 | Begging the Question | A thought process that assumes a statement's conclusion is true without any sufficient evidence to support the claim. | 24 | |
| 2792367498 | Non Sequitur | A statement that does not follow logically from evidence. | 25 | |
| 2792367619 | Limited Options | Either/or and false dichotomy: the most common of these is the cliche, "Either you are for us or against us." The statement does not acknowledge the possibility of a neural position. | 26 | |
| 2792369741 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion. | 27 | |
| 2792370375 | False Analogy | an analogy in which the dissimilarities between two things are so much greater than their similarities that their connection by analogy is unjustified (oversimplifying). | 28 | |
| 2792370814 | Ipse Dixit | Latin for "he himself has spoken" and this holds in cases where there is an appeal to an unqualified expert. | 29 | |
| 2792371744 | Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc | This fallacy is Latin for "after which therefore because of which," meaning that it is incorrect to always claim that something is a cause just because it happened earlier. One may loosely summarize this fallacy by saying that correlation does not imply causation. | 30 | |
| 2792372266 | Circular Reasoning | A fallacy in which the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence | 31 | |
| 2792372449 | Bandwagon | A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct, or desirable. | 32 | |
| 2792372712 | Slippery Slope | A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented. | 33 | |
| 2792373379 | Syllogism | From the Greek for "reckoning together," a syllogism (or syllogistic reasoning or syllogistic logic) is a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (the first one called "major" and the second called "minor") that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. A frequently cited example proceeds as follows: major premise: All men are mortal. minor premise: Socrates is a man. conclusion: Therefore, Socrates is a mortal. A syllogism's conclusion is valid only if each of the two premises is valid. Syllogisms may also present the specific idea first ("Socrates") and the general second ("all men"). Adapted from V. Stevenson, Patrick Henry High School, and Abrams' Glossary of Literary Terms. | 34 | |
| 2792374362 | Ibid | An abbreviation for "ibidem", a Latin word meaning "in the same place". It is used in footnotes and bibliographies to refer to a source cited in a previous. | 35 | |
| 2792375769 | Euphenism | The substitution of a relatively inoffensive term for one that is considered too harsh, unpleasant, or blunt. | 36 | |
| 2792376039 | Conceit | An elaborate or fancy metaphor of a far-fetched nature. | 37 | |
| 2792377804 | Assonance | Two or more words with similar vowel sounds sandwiched between different consonants. | 38 | |
| 2792378394 | Apostrophe | The addressing of an inanimate object or an idea as it it were human. | 39 | |
| 2792378947 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 40 | |
| 2792379391 | Loose Sentence | A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows. | 41 | |
| 2792379746 | Inversion | A reversal of the usual order of words. | 42 | |
| 2792380228 | Ambiguity | The purposeful creation of a statement with more than one possible meaning. | 43 | |
| 2792380957 | Neologism | A recently invented phrase or word. It is sometimes used to make authors look up-to-date or trendy. | 44 | |
| 2792381553 | Jargon | The specified language of a professional, occupational, or other group. Connotatively, it means pretentious, wordy, and almost meaningless language. | 45 | |
| 2792382942 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | 46 | |
| 2792383179 | Concrete | A word that specifies what is tangible, something experienced with at least one of the five senses. It gives meaning to the writing. | 47 | |
| 2792384349 | Abstract | A word that signifies a general concept, an idea, or a condition that is intangible. | 48 | |
| 2792387145 | Satire | A word that targets human vices and follies or social institution and conventions. | 49 | |
| 2792389245 | Juvenalian Satire | Harsh, biting satire, full of moral indignation and bitter contempt. | 50 | |
| 2792391904 | Horatian Satire | gentle, amused, witty satire; mildly corrective. | 51 | |
| 2792392379 | Narrative | Any type of writing that is concerned with relating an event or a series of events. | 52 | |
| 2792392822 | Homily/Sermon | A religious speech meant to be spoken out loud and containing a moral or didactic lesson. | 53 | |
| 2792395387 | Eulogy | A speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially in honor of a deceased person. | 54 | |
| 2792396224 | Elegy | A thoughtful poem lamenting someone's death. | 55 | |
| 2792397005 | Allegory | A literary work that occurs on two levels: the literal and the symbolic. Thus, actions, characters, settings, and object have symbolic, abstract meaning. | 56 |
