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| 6681201571 | Damning with faint praise | Intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication | 0 | |
| 6681201572 | Deduction | A form of reasoning that begins with a generalization then applies the generalization to a specific case. | 1 | |
| 6681201573 | Digression | A temporary departure from the main subject in speaking or writing | 2 | |
| 6681201574 | Ellipsis | 1. In grammar the omission of a word or words necessary for complete construction but understood in context 2. The sign that's penning has been led out of quotation "to be or not that is the question" | 3 | |
| 6681201575 | Expository writing | Writing that explains or analyzes | 4 | |
| 6681201576 | Euphemism | The use of a word or phrase that is less direct but that is also less distasteful or less offensive than another Ex: he is at rest... (he is dead) | 5 | |
| 6681201577 | Inverted syntax | Reversing the normal word order of a sentence | 6 | |
| 6681201578 | Litotes | In rhetoric a figure in which an affirmative is expressed by a negation of the contrary "a citizen of no mean city is therefore a citizen of an important or famous city" | 7 | |
| 6681201579 | Non sequitur | A statement that does not follow logically from what proceeded it | 8 | |
| 6681201580 | Parable | A short story from which a lesson may be drawn Christ used the parable to teach his followers moral truths | 9 | |
| 6681201581 | Pedantry | A display of narrow minded and trivial scholarship or arbitrary adherence to rules and forms. | 10 | |
| 6681201582 | Periodic sentence structure | A sentence written so that the full meaning cannot be understood until end Ex across the stream beyond the clearing from behind a fallen tree the lion emerged. | 11 | |
| 6681201583 | Post hoc fallacy | This fallacy of logic occurs when the writers assume that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident. | 12 | |
| 6681201584 | Spatial ordering | Organization of information using special clues such as top to bottom left to right | 13 | |
| 6681201585 | Syllogism | A form of reasoning In Which two statements or premises are made and a logical conclusion is drawn from them a form of deductive reasoning. | 14 | |
| 6681201586 | Ad hominem fallacy | A fallacy of logic in which a persons character or motive is attacked instead of the persons argument | 15 | |
| 6681201587 | Ad populum fallacy | A fallacy of logic in which the widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make it true or right | 16 | |
| 6681201588 | Appeal to authority | Citizen of information from people recognized for their special knowledge of a subject for the purpose of strengthening a speaker or writers arguments | 17 | |
| 6681201589 | False dilemma | A fallacy of logical argument which is committed when too few of the available alternatives are considered and all but one are assessed and deemed impossible and deemed impossible or unacceptable | 18 | |
| 6681201590 | Begging the question | A fallacy of logical argument that assumes as true the very thing that one is trying to prove. | 19 |
