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| 14701231804 | ad hominem fallacy | a fallacy of logic in which a person's character or motive is attacked instead of that person's argument | 0 | |
| 14701234279 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 14701235063 | allusion | a passing reference to something or someone outside the immediate scope of the work; clarifies or explains the situation | 2 | |
| 14701236632 | ambiguous | capable of many interpretations | 3 | |
| 14701237083 | analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 4 | |
| 14701237784 | anecdote | a short account of interesting events | 5 | |
| 14701239916 | antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 14701240396 | antithesis | in direct opposition or contrast. Used in literature to form a contrast within the structure of a sentence, as in "Give me liberty or give me death." | 7 | |
| 14701242331 | appeal to authority | citation of information from people recognized for their special knowledge of a subject for the purpose of strengthening a speaker or writer's arguments | 8 | |
| 14701244143 | asyndeton | leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses | 9 | |
| 14701245394 | begging the question | a fallacy of logical argument that assumes as true the very thing that one is trying to prove; for example: 1. The bible is the infallible word of God. 2. The Bible says that God exists. Therefore, 3. God exists | 10 | |
| 14701249652 | colloquial expression | words and phrases used in everyday speech but avoided in formal writing and speaking | 11 | |
| 14701250671 | complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 12 | |
| 14701251395 | connotation | an association that a word calls to mind in addition to its dictionary/literal meaning | 13 | |
| 14701252300 | denotation | a word's objective meaning (dictionary meaning) | 14 | |
| 14701252871 | dialect | the language and/or word pronunciation specific to a region or group | 15 | |
| 14701253618 | didactic | originally used to mean any instructive rhetoric, it has taken on the pejorative meaning of dull or overly formal | 16 | |
| 14701256523 | elegiac | mournful over what has passed or been lost | 17 | |
| 14701258298 | ethos | the qualities of character, intelligence, and goodwill in an arguer that contribute to an audience's acceptance of the claim | 18 | |
| 14701259454 | euphemism | a word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. The use of passed away for died, and let go for fired are two examples | 19 | |
| 14701262190 | explication | a detailed examination covering all aspects of a work | 20 | |
| 14701263553 | fallacy | an error of reasoning based on faulty use of evidence or incorrect inference | 21 | |
| 14701264714 | false analogy | assuming without sufficient proof that if objects or processes are similar in some ways, then they are similar in other ways as well | 22 | |
| 14701266290 | 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 or unacceptable; for example: "Are you going to college to make something of yourself, or are you going to end up being an unemployable bum like me?" | 23 | |
| 14701270316 | hasty generalizations | drawing conclusions from insufficient evidence | 24 | |
| 14701271168 | hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 25 | |
| 14701272015 | inversion | reversal of the normal order of words for emphasis or dramatic effect; often used in poetry: "Never will I yield." | 26 | |
| 14701273631 | juxtaposition | placing two unlike persons, places, or things next to each other to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish a purpose | 27 | |
| 14701275519 | metonymy | a figure of speech that substitutes something closely related for the thing actually meant. In the opening line of "The Lost Leader," Robert Browning says, "Just for a handful of silver he left us," using silver to refer to money in the form of a government grant | 28 | |
| 14701279223 | non sequitur | a statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it | 29 | |
| 14701280828 | parallelism | a sentence, paragraph, line of verse, etc., which expresses a comparison giving equal stress and weight to ideas, concepts, phrases, etc. | 30 | |
| 14701282025 | periodic sentence structure | a sentence written so that the full meaning cannot be understood until the end; for example: Across the stream, beyond the clearing, from behind a fallen tree, the lion emerged. | 31 | |
| 14701285704 | qualifier | a claim restriction that limits the claim by stating the claim may not always be true as stated | 32 | |
| 14701286719 | rhetoric | any type of eloquent, learned, effective use of language (written or spoken), especially designed to persuade | 33 | |
| 14701287645 | satire | writing that ridicules or holds up to contempt the faults of individuals or of groups. A satirist may use a sympathetic tone or an angry, bitter tone | 34 | |
| 14701289597 | sentence paterns | the arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions--such as simple, compound, complex or compound-complex | 35 | |
| 14701291105 | simple sentence | a statement containing a subject and a predicate; an independent clause | 36 | |
| 14701293745 | subordinate clause | a clause that modifies an independent clause, created by a subordinating conjuction | 37 | |
| 14701296683 | syllogism | a logical argument based on a major and a minor premise to a conclusion: All elephants are grey. Tonka is an elephant. Tonka is grey. | 38 | |
| 14701300161 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to stand for the whole. The word "wheels" refers to a car; "smokes" for cigarettes, and "keys" to a piano. | 39 | |
| 14701302425 | syntax | the pattern or arrangement of words into a coherent thought | 40 | |
| 14701303009 | tone | the writer's attitude toward the readers and toward the subject. A writer's tone may be formal or informal, friendly or distant, personal or pompous | 41 | |
| 14701304333 | understatement | deliberately representing something as much less than it really is. Jonathan Swift wrote, "Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her appearance." | 42 | |
| 14701305963 | voice | In writing, a metaphor drawn from the spoken, encompassing the writer's tone, style, and manner | 43 |
