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| 10554710163 | Ethos | an appeal to ethics and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. | 0 | |
| 10554710164 | Pathos | an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. | 1 | |
| 10554710165 | Logos | an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. | 2 | |
| 10554710167 | Syllogism | A logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion. |  | 3 |
| 10554710172 | Equivocation | a fallacy of argument in which a lie is given the appearance of truth, or in which the truth is misrepresented in deceptive language. | 4 | |
| 10554710174 | Diction | a speaker's choice of words. Analysis of diction looks at these choices and what they add to the speaker's message. | 5 | |
| 10554710175 | Simile | a figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing it explicitly to something else, using words like, as, or as though. |  | 6 |
| 10554710176 | Metaphor | figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using like or as. | 7 | |
| 10554710177 | Anaphora | the intentional repetition of beginning clauses in order to create an artistic effect. |  | 8 |
| 10554710178 | Rhetoric | it is the art of finding ways of persuading an audience. | 9 | |
| 10554710180 | Allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) to to a work of art. | 10 | |
| 10554710181 | Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point. | 11 | |
| 10554710182 | Personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. | 12 | |
| 10554710183 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. | 13 | |
| 10554710185 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 14 | |
| 10554710186 | Antithesis | opposition, or contrast or ideas or words in a parallel construction. | 15 | |
| 10554710188 | Rhetorical Question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for the rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer. Ex.) Are you stupid? | 16 | |
| 10554710194 | Anecdote | a brief story used to illustrate a point or claim. |  | 17 |
| 10554710205 | False Dilemma or Dichotomy | a fallacy of argument in which a complicated issue is misrepresented as offering only two possible alternatives, one of which is often made to seem vastly preferable to the other. | 18 | |
| 10554710206 | Appeal to doubtful authority | a fallacy of argument in which a claim is based on the expertise of someone who lacks appropriate credentials. | 19 | |
| 10554710207 | post hoc ergo propter hoc | a fallacy of argument making the unwarranted assumption that because one event follows another, the first event causes the second. | 20 | |
| 10554710208 | Hasty generalization | a fallacy of argument in which an inference is drawn from insufficient data. | 21 | |
| 10554710209 | Non sequitor | a fallacy of argument in which claims, reasons, or warrants fail to connect logically; one point doesn't follow from another. | 22 | |
| 10554710230 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 23 | |
| 10554710232 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 24 | |
| 10554710233 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 25 | |
| 10554710234 | Antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. |  | 26 |
| 10554710240 | Colloquial/Colloquialism | Local or regional dialect expression | 27 | |
| 10554710242 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. | 28 | |
| 10554710243 | Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. | 29 | |
| 10554710244 | Diction | Related to style, _______ refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. | 30 | |
| 10554710246 | Euphemism | From the Greek for "good speech," euphemisms are a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept - POLITICALLY CORRECT | 31 | |
| 10554710252 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. (The literal Greek meaning is "overshoot.") | 32 | |
| 10554710253 | Imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. | 33 | |
| 10554710257 | Loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. | 34 | |
| 10554710258 | Metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity. | 35 | |
| 10554710264 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 36 | |
| 10554710265 | Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. | 37 | |
| 10554710268 | Periodic sentence | The opposite of loose sentence, a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 38 | |
| 10554710269 | Personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 39 | |
| 10554710273 | Rhetoric | From the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. | 40 | |
| 10554710274 | Sarcasm | Involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. | 41 | |
| 10554710277 | Syllogism | 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. | 42 | |
| 10554710275 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. | 43 | |
| 10554710279 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 44 | |
| 10554710281 | Thesis | The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position. | 45 | |
| 10554710284 | Understatement | the ironic minimalizing of fact; presents something as less significant than it is. | 46 | |
| 10554710286 | Slippery Slope | This is the failure to provide evidence to support a claim that one event will lead to a catastrophic chain of events. | 47 | |
| 10554710287 | straw man | When a writer argues against a claim that nobody actually holds or is universally considered weak. | 48 | |
| 10554710288 | Ethos | An appeal to credibility. The writer is seeking to convince you that he or she has the background, history, skills, and/or expertise to speak on the issue. | 49 | |
| 10554710289 | Juxtaposition | Making on idea more dramatic by placing it next to its opposite. | 50 | |
| 10554710290 | Logos | An appeal to reason and logic | 51 | |
| 10554710291 | Pathos | An appeal to emotion. | 52 | |
| 10554710292 | Rhetorical Question | A question whose answer is assumed. | 53 | |
| 10554710293 | Simile | A critical figure of speech in an argument when what is unknown is compared to something that is known using the word "like," "as," or "than" in order to better perceive its importance. | 54 | |
| 10554710299 | Ad hominem argument | An argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue | 55 | |
| 10554710300 | Anaphora | Figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of the initial words over successive phrases or clauses | 56 | |
| 10554710301 | Anecdote | A brief story that illustrates or makes a point | 57 | |
| 10554710302 | Appeal to authority | A fallacy in which a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or institution. | 58 | |
| 10554710305 | Asyndeton | A series of words separated by commas (with no conjunction). | 59 | |
| 10554710309 | Circular Reasoning | The reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with. | 60 | |
| 10554902084 | annotation | A brief explanation, summary, or evaluation of a text or work of literature. | 61 | |
| 10554902099 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 62 | |
| 10554907589 | concrete language | Language that describes specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than ideas or qualities. | 63 | |
| 10554908952 | ellipses | Indicated by a series of three periods; shows that words have been omitted | 64 | |
| 10554910754 | False Analogy | Arguing on the basis of a comparison of unrelated things. | 65 | |
| 10554912679 | formal diction | language that is lofty, dignified, and impersonal | 66 | |
| 10554915004 | freight train sentence | A long sentence that expresses a character's train of thoughts, sets a scene or organizes ideas. | 67 | |
| 10554919548 | Jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. | 68 | |
| 10554921619 | pathetic fallacy | giving feelings to inanimate things | 69 | |
| 10554927825 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 70 | |
| 10554929194 | red herring | something that draws attention away from the main issue | 71 | |
| 10554929195 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind. | 72 | |
| 10554931977 | tu quoque | argument that attacks a person on by focusing on their past words/actions instead of current claims | 73 |
