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| 6773500081 | ad hominem fallacy | attacks the person instead of the argument | 0 | |
| 6773506728 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 1 | |
| 6773511826 | alliteration | repetition of beginning sounds | 2 | |
| 6773513481 | allusion | a passing reference to a work of literature or historical event | 3 | |
| 6773515911 | ambiguity | uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language | 4 | |
| 6773521656 | analogy | a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification | 5 | |
| 6773526811 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 6 | |
| 6773532202 | antecedent | the word a pronoun replaces | 7 | |
| 6773532203 | antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other | 8 | |
| 6773539215 | aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." | 9 | |
| 6773551588 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which the writer or speaker addresses an imaginary person or one who is not there | 10 | |
| 6773554704 | anadiplosis | a rhetorical device in which a writer or speaker uses a word near the end of the clause and then repeats that word to begin the next clause. Anadiplosis is used to bring attention to a specific thing or concept | 11 | |
| 6773558434 | assonance | repetition of a vowel soun d | 12 | |
| 6773560544 | backing | support for an argument which typically includes facts, statistics, or examples | 13 | |
| 6773565904 | bandwagon appeal | also known as the ad populum fallacy. Can appeal to patriotism, loyalty, or religious fervor. | 14 | |
| 6773575368 | begging the question | also known as circular reasoning, doesn't actually support the argument, but just re-states it. | 15 | |
| 6773588237 | chiasmus | a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form. For example, "Don't count the days; make the days count." | 16 | |
| 6773597010 | claim | a point or assertion in an argument | 17 | |
| 6773630869 | claim of fact | posits whether something is true or untrue, but there must always be room for controversy | 18 | |
| 6773632391 | claim of value | establishes standards of evaluation or advantage | 19 | |
| 6773651181 | claims of policy | proposes a clear course of action | 20 | |
| 6773658809 | clause | a unit of grammar which ranks below a sentence and includes both a subject and a verb | 21 | |
| 6773662560 | colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation | 22 | |
| 6773666734 | conceit | an extended metaphor | 23 | |
| 6773668325 | connotation | the associations a word produces | 24 | |
| 6773671148 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds | 25 | |
| 6773674199 | deductive reasoning | "top-down" logic, or the process of reasoning from one or more statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion | 26 | |
| 6773678844 | denotation | the dictionary definition of a word | 27 | |
| 6773680223 | diction | refers to word choice; can be formal or informal | 28 | |
| 6773683103 | didactic | meant to teach a lesson | 29 | |
| 6773685283 | ethos | created by choosing language that is appropriate for the audience and topic, making yourself sound fair or unbiased, introducing your expertise or pedigree, etc. | 30 | |
| 6773745164 | irony | when the unexpected happens | 31 | |
| 6773697210 | euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing | 32 | |
| 6773704693 | figurative language | not literal; includes techniques such as simile, metaphor, and personification | 33 | |
| 6773706316 | foreshadowing | hints or clues of what's to come | 34 | |
| 6773708777 | genre | a type of style of writing | 35 | |
| 6773712498 | hasty generalization | makes a general assumption based on one or two experiences. Stereotyping and sexism often fall into this category | 36 | |
| 6773725617 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 37 | |
| 6773717137 | Horatian satire | mild or humorous criticism of human folly | 38 | |
| 6773725618 | imagery | sensory detail -- especially visual detail -- in literature | 39 | |
| 6773732248 | inductive reasoning | logic based on observation or generalization | 40 | |
| 6773738216 | inference | a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning | 41 | |
| 6773747440 | Juvenalian satire | provokes dark humor and criticizes corruption | 42 | |
| 6773752028 | juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together, often with contrasting effect | 43 | |
| 6773760307 | litotes | ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad) | 44 | |
| 6773763845 | logos | appeals to logic using facts, statistics, historical examples, etc. | 45 | |
| 6773768205 | loose sentence | also called a cumulative sentence, a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the addition of modifying phrases or clauses | 46 | |
| 6773779327 | syllogism | a type of logical deduction involving a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | 47 | |
| 6773787624 | metonymy | when a related object stands for the thing itself (ex: "the crown" to refer to the monarch) | 48 | |
| 6773799228 | mood | the feeling created in the reader or audience | 49 | |
| 6773801775 | narrative | a spoken or written account; a story | 50 | |
| 6773801776 | non sequitor | a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement | 51 | |
| 6773814562 | onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle) | 52 | |
| 6773824294 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true) | 53 | |
| 6773828961 | paradox | a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true | 54 | |
| 6773837068 | parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect | 55 | |
| 6773842788 | pathos | can be developed by using meaningful language, emotional tone, emotion evoking examples, stories of emotional events, and implied meanings | 56 | |
| 6773849800 | pedantic | narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned | 57 | |
| 6773857388 | periodic sentence | in rhetoric, a complex sentence in which the main clause is left unfinished until the end in order to create the effect of anticipation or suspense | 58 | |
| 6773863131 | personification | human characteristics given to non-human entities | 59 | |
| 6773869361 | post hoc, ergo propter hoc | literally "after, therefore because of," this logical fallacy implies cause and effect where none exists | 60 | |
| 6773873446 | fallacy | a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument | 61 | |
| 6773879458 | predicate adjective | an adjective appearing in the predicate of a sentence or clause and modifying the grammatical subject of the sentence or clause. Typically, a predicate adjective follows the verb to be, but it could also follow a linking verb | 62 | |
| 6773885129 | predicate nominative | a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb that restates or stands for the subject. For example: Mary is my sister | 63 | |
| 6773889547 | prose | regular writing or speech; not poetic | 64 | |
| 6773891919 | qualifier | a word or phrase that changes how absolute, certain or generalized a statement is | 65 | |
| 6773900832 | rebuttal | a refutation or contradiction | 66 | |
| 6773904784 | shift | a change in mood, tone, or message | 67 | |
| 6773908719 | simile | a comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" | 68 | |
| 6773910779 | symbol | something which stands for both itself and something else | 69 | |
| 6773913216 | synecdoche | when the part stands for the whole, or vice versa | 70 | |
| 6773916747 | syntax | sentence structure, organization, and type | 71 | |
| 6773918575 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 72 | |
| 6773923176 | tone | the speaker's attitude toward the subject | 73 | |
| 6773925539 | polysyndeton | the use of several conjunctions in quick succession | 74 | |
| 6773930368 | asyndeton | the absence of conjunctions where they would normally be present | 75 | |
| 6773932284 | zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts) | 76 | |
| 6773939826 | jargon | a type of diction which involves special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand | 77 | |
| 6773952696 | false dilemma | also known as false dichotomy; presents an either/or situation where none exists | 78 | |
| 6773962982 | equivocation | uses a word or phrase to join together two arguments that don't belong together | 79 | |
| 6773957442 | straw man fallacy | creates a false opponent and tears that person down | 80 | |
| 6773971018 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 81 | |
| 6773977111 | enumeratio | a figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences; the listing or detailing of the parts of something | 82 | |
| 6773992691 | amplification | a rhetorical device writers use to embellish a sentence or statement by adding further information | 83 |
