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| 14556253564 | Ad hominem | In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning "against the man." | 0 | |
| 14556253565 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | 1 | |
| 14556253566 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 2 | |
| 14556253567 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 3 | |
| 14556253568 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 4 | |
| 14556253569 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 5 | |
| 14556253570 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 6 | |
| 14556253571 | Anti-climax | a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events | 7 | |
| 14556253572 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 8 | |
| 14556253573 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 9 | |
| 14556253574 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 10 | |
| 14556253575 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 11 | |
| 14556253576 | Bias | prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. | 12 | |
| 14556253577 | Colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 13 | |
| 14556253578 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 14 | |
| 14556253579 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 15 | |
| 14556253580 | Deductive reasoning | the process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations | 16 | |
| 14556253581 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 17 | |
| 14556253582 | Diction | word choice | 18 | |
| 14556253583 | Didactic | intended to instruct | 19 | |
| 14556253584 | Ellipsis | in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods | 20 | |
| 14556253585 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 21 | |
| 14556253586 | Fallacy | a false or mistaken idea | 22 | |
| 14556253587 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 23 | |
| 14556253588 | Inductive reasoning | A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations. | 24 | |
| 14556253589 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 25 | |
| 14556253590 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 26 | |
| 14556253591 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused | 27 | |
| 14556253592 | Metaphor | comparison not using like or as | 28 | |
| 14556253593 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 29 | |
| 14556253594 | Non-sequitur | something that does not logically follow | 30 | |
| 14556253595 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 31 | |
| 14556253596 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 32 | |
| 14556253597 | Paradox | a contradiction or dilemma | 33 | |
| 14556253598 | Pendantic | putting unnecessary stress on minor or purely academic knowledge | 34 | |
| 14556253599 | Parallel structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 35 | |
| 14556253600 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 36 | |
| 14556253601 | Post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this) | assumes that because two events occur close together in time, the first must be the cause of the second | 37 | |
| 14556253602 | Red Herring | A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion | 38 | |
| 14556253603 | Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 39 | |
| 14556253604 | Similie | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 40 | |
| 14556253612 | Slippery Slope | 41 | ||
| 14556253613 | Straw man argument | 42 | ||
| 14556253605 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 43 | |
| 14556253606 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 44 | |
| 14556253607 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 45 | |
| 14556253608 | Thesis | a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. | 46 | |
| 14556253609 | Tricolon | Sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses. | 47 | |
| 14556253610 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 48 | |
| 14556253611 | Zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 49 |
