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| 9726068052 | Ad Hominem | In an argument, an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. The latin meaning of "against a man" | 0 | |
| 9726068053 | Antithesis | the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraph. "to be or not to be..." Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do you your country..." | 1 | |
| 9726071453 | Connotation/ Denotation | The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning, literal or dictionary meaning of a word | 2 | |
| 9726071454 | Ellipsis | An indication by a series of three periods that some material has been omitted from a given text. It could be a word, a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, or a whole section, it could obscure the real meaning of the piece of writing | 3 | |
| 9726073708 | Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration, often humorous, it can also be ironic; the opposite of understatement | 4 | |
| 9726075008 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea | 5 | |
| 9726075009 | Oxymoron | An image of a contradictory term (bitter-sweet, pretty ugly, jumbo shrimp) | 6 | |
| 9726076955 | Personification | the assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts Wordsworth- "the sea that bares her bosom to the moon" | 7 | |
| 9726076956 | Syllogism | the format of a formal argument that consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | 8 | |
| 9726080482 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole (all hands on deck) | 9 |
