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| 6104547369 | Parataxis | Writing successive independent clauses, with coordinating conjunctions, or no conjunctions. | 0 | |
| 6104547370 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end, after all introductory elements such as words, phrases, and dependent clauses. The effect is to add emphasis and structural variety; | 1 | |
| 6104547371 | Syllogism | A rhetorical device that starts an argument with a reference to something general and from this it draws conclusion about something more specific. | 2 | |
| 6104547372 | Anecdote | A short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh. | 3 | |
| 6104547373 | Assonance | Similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants. | 4 | |
| 6104547374 | Trope | A figure of speech through which speakers or writers intend to express meanings of words differently than their literal meanings. In other words, it is metaphorical or figurative use of words in which writers shift from the literal meanings of words to their non-literal meanings. The trope, in fact, could be a phrase, a word or an image used to create artistic effects. | 5 | |
| 6104547375 | Root Word "ridi/risi" | laughter | 6 | |
| 6104547379 | Allusion | a short, informal reference to a famous person or event | 7 | |
| 6104547380 | Dysphemism | a negative expression is used to make a more positive expression sound worse | 8 | |
| 6104547381 | Epithet | describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent than they actually are | 9 | |
| 6104547382 | Parenthetical | said or written while you are talking or writing about something else in order to explain something or add information often in parentheses. | 10 | |
| 6104547383 | Fallacy of division | inferring that something is true of one or more of the parts from the fact that it is true of the whole. | 11 | |
| 6104547384 | Metonymy | a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated | 12 | |
| 6104547385 | Litote | a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions. | 13 | |
| 6104547390 | Appeal to Force (Argumentum ad baculum) | When force, coercion, or even a threat of force is used in place of a reason in an attempt to justify a conclusion. | 14 | |
| 6104547391 | Conduplicatio | Figure of repetition in which the key word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases | 15 | |
| 6104547392 | Dogmatic Thinking | Arrogantly inflexible in insisting upon one's own arbitrary opinions | 16 | |
| 6104547393 | Parallelism | The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter. | 17 | |
| 6104547394 | Antithesis | A sentence in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 18 | |
| 6104547395 | Invective | Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language. | 19 | |
| 6104547398 | Pedestrian | 1. someone who is walking, especially in a town or city, instead of driving or riding 2. not interesting or unusual | 20 | |
| 6104547399 | Want | 1. to desire or wish for (something) 2.to need (something) 3. to be without (something needed) | 21 | |
| 6104547400 | Simile | A direct comparison using the words "like" or "as." | 22 | |
| 6104547401 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. | 23 | |
| 6104547402 | Enthymeme | An argumentative statement in which the writer or the speaker omits one of the major or minor premises, does not clearly pronounce it, or keeps this premise implied. | 24 | |
| 6104547403 | Anadiplosis | repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause. | 25 | |
| 6104547404 | Personal Attack (Argumentum ad hominem) | When a person substitutes abusive remarks for evidence when attacking another person's claim or claims. | 26 | |
| 6104547405 | Hyperbaton | An inversion in the arrangement of common words. It can be defined as a rhetorical device in which the writers play with the normal position of words, phrases and clauses in order to create differently arranged sentences especially for emphasis. | 27 | |
| 6104547406 | False Cause (Post hoc ergo propter hoc) | (literally "after this, therefore because of this") the fallacy of arguing that one event was caused by another event merely because it occurred after that event. | 28 | |
| 6104547407 | Root word "cit" | - arouse, summon, set in motion start, call out | 29 | |
| 6104547411 | Hypophera | A figure of speech in which a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question | 30 | |
| 6104547412 | Dirimens Copulatio | Mentioning a balancing or opposing fact to prevent the argument from being one-sided or unqualified | 31 | |
| 6104547413 | Strawman | When a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. | 32 | |
| 6104547414 | Appeal to Tradition (argumentum ad antiquitatem) | When it is assumed that something is better or correct simply because it is older, traditional, or "always has been done." | 33 | |
| 6104547415 | Argumentum ad nauseam | Repeating an argument or a premise over and over again in place of better supporting evidence. | 34 | |
| 6104547416 | Metaphor | A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics. | 35 | |
| 6104547421 | Idiom | Refers to a set expression or a phrase comprising two or more words. An interesting fact regarding the device is that the expression is not interpreted literally | 36 | |
| 6104547422 | 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. | 37 | |
| 6104547423 | Anaphora | The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism | 38 | |
| 6104547424 | Apophasis | Asserts or emphasizes something by pointedly seeming to pass over, ignore, or deny it. | 39 | |
| 6104547425 | Enumeratio | Detailing parts, causes, effects, or consequences to make a point more forcibly | 40 | |
| 6104547426 | Euphemism | The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one | 41 | |
| 6104547427 | Root word "gogue" | to lead or to bring | 42 | |
| 6104547431 | Neologism | A newly coined word or expression. | 43 | |
| 6104547432 | Aporia | Expresses doubt about an idea or conclusion. | 44 | |
| 6104547434 | Appeal to Pity (Argumentum ad misericordiam) | The attempt to distract from the truth of the conclusion by the use of pity. | 45 | |
| 6104547435 | Analogy | A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar. | 46 | |
| 6104547436 | Fallacy of Composition | Inferring that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole. | 47 | |
| 6104547437 | Root Word "path" | feeling | 48 | |
| 6104547441 | Aposiopesis | Stopping abruptly and leaving a statement unfinished. | 49 | |
| 6104547442 | Alliteration | The recurrence of initial consonant sounds. | 50 | |
| 6104547443 | Asyndeton | Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. | 51 | |
| 6104547444 | Oxymoron | A paradox reduced to two words, usually in an adjective-noun ("eloquent silence") or adverb-adjective ("inertly strong") relationship, and is used for effect, complexity, emphasis, or wit. | 52 | |
| 6104547445 | Catachresis | An extravagant, implied metaphor using words in an alien or unusual way. | 53 | |
| 6104547446 | Polysyndeton | The use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause, and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton. | 54 | |
| 6104547447 | Root word "ami" | love, friendship | 55 | |
| 6104547455 | Scesis Onomaton | Emphasizes an idea by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements. | 56 | |
| 6104547456 | Onomatopeia | The use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes. | 57 | |
| 6104547457 | Procatalepsis | By anticipating an objection and answering it, permits an argument to continue moving forward while taking into account points or reasons opposing either the train of thought or its final conclusions. | 58 | |
| 6104547458 | Hasty Generalization | When a person draws a conclusion about a population based on a sample that is not large enough (too little evidence). | 59 | |
| 6104547459 | Sweeping Generalization (Dicto simpliciter) | Applies a general statement too broadly | 60 | |
| 6104547460 | Equivocation | Using an ambiguous term in more than one sense, thus making an argument misleading. | 61 | |
| 6104547461 | Root word "fort/forc" | power/strength/strong | 62 | |
| 6104547465 | Tu quoque | "you too." Committed when it is assumed that because someone else has done a thing there is nothing wrong with doing it. | 63 | |
| 6104547466 | Lateral Thinking | 64 | ||
| 6104547467 | Arguing from Ignorance (Argumentum ad ignorantiam) | The assumption of a conclusion or fact based primarily on lack of evidence to the contrary. | 65 | |
| 6104547468 | Bandwagon (Argumentum ad numerum) | committed by arguments that appeal to the growing popularity of an idea as a reason for accepting it as true. They take the mere fact that an idea suddenly attracting adherents as a reason for us to join in with the trend and become adherents of the idea ourselves. | 66 | |
| 6104547469 | False Dilemma/False Dichotomy | When only two choices are presented yet more exist, or a spectrum of possible choices exists between two extremes. | 67 | |
| 6104547470 | Understatement | deliberately expresses an idea as less important than it actually is, either for ironic emphasis or for politeness and tact. | 68 | |
| 6104547471 | Root word "loc" | place | 69 | |
| 6104547475 | Antanagoge | Placing a good point or benefit next to a fault criticism, or problem in order to reduce the impact or significance of the negative point. | 70 | |
| 6104547476 | Antimetabole | Reversing the order of repeated words or phrases (a loosely chiastic structure, AB-BA) to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast. | 71 | |
| 6104547477 | Subordinate Clause | Also called a dependent clause—will begin with a subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun and will contain both a subject and a verb. This combination of words will not form a complete sentence. It will instead make a reader want additional information to finish the thought. | 72 | |
| 6104547478 | Chiasmus | Might be called "reverse parallelism," since the second part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order. Instead of an A,B structure (e.g., "learned unwillingly") paralleled by another A,B structure ("forgotten gladly"), the A,B will be followed by B,A ("gladly forgotten"). | 73 | |
| 6104547479 | Epistrophe | Forms the counterpart to anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. | 74 | |
| 6104547480 | Cacophony | Refers to the use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds primarily those of consonants to achieve desired results. | 75 | |
| 6104547481 | Root word "macr/macer" | lean | 76 | |
| 6104547484 | Eclipse | 1. the sun or moon kind or whatever 2. to reduce in splendor, make less outstanding | 77 | |
| 6104547485 | Eponym | Substitutes for a particular attribute the name of a famous person recognized for that attribute. | 78 | |
| 6104547486 | Distinctio | An explicit reference to a particular meaning or to the various meanings of a word, in order to remove or prevent ambiguity. | 79 | |
| 6104547487 | Antononmasia | A kind of metonymy in which an epithet or phrase takes the place of a proper name | 80 | |
| 6104547488 | Antiphrasis | One word irony, established by context | 81 | |
| 6104547489 | Slippery Slope | A fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. | 82 | |
| 6104547490 | Red Herring | A fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. | 83 | |
| 6104547491 | Root Word "onym" | name | 84 | |
| 6104547495 | Personification | Metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes--attributes of form, character, feelings, behavior, and so on. | 85 | |
| 6104547496 | Anacoluthon | A stylistic device and is defined as a syntactic deviation and interruption within a sentence from one structure to another. In this interruption, the expected sequence of grammar is absent. The grammatical flow of sentences is interrupted in order to begin more sentences. | 86 | |
| 6104547497 | Diacope | Repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase as a method of emphasis. | 87 | |
| 6104547498 | Epanalepsis | Repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end. The beginning and the end are the two positions of strongest emphasis in a sentence, so by having the same word in both places, you call special attention to it | 88 | |
| 6104547499 | Epizeuxis | Repetition of one word (for emphasis). | 89 | |
| 6104547500 | Zeugma | Includes several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage (or yoking together) of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech. Thus examples of zeugmatic usage would include one subject with two (or more) verbs, a verb with two (or more) direct objects, two (or more) subjects with one verb, and so forth. The main benefit of the linking is that it shows relationships between ideas and actions more clearly. | 90 |
