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| 8217540113 | Anecdote | a short and interesting story, or an amusing event, often proposed to support or demonstrate some point, and to make the audience laugh. | 0 | |
| 8217540114 | Allegory | a story with (count 'em) two levels of meaning. First, there's the surface of the story. You know, the characters and plot and all that obvious stuff. Then there's the symbolic level, or the deeper meaning that all the jazz on the surface represents.a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true. | 1 | |
| 8227214202 | Satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn. | 2 | |
| 8227218173 | Deductive reasoning | a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true. | 3 | |
| 8227218174 | Inductive reasoning | derived using facts and instances which lead to the formation of a general opinion. Though all the facts upon which the conclusion is based are true, there is still a chance of the conclusion reached being false. | 4 | |
| 8227223144 | Syllogism | a rhetorical device that starts an argument with a reference to something general and from this it draws conclusion about something more specific. | 5 | |
| 8227225727 | Juxtaposition | a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. | 6 |
