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| 14245979408 | ad hominem fallacy | a fallacy of logic in which a person's character or motive is attacked instead of that person's argument | 0 | |
| 14245983133 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 1 | |
| 14245985657 | allusion | a passing reference to something or someone outside the immediate scope of the work; clarifies or explains the situation | 2 | |
| 14245996417 | ambiguous | capable of being understood in more than one way | 3 | |
| 14245999009 | analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 4 | |
| 14246017642 | anecdote | a short account of an interesting event | 5 | |
| 14246020304 | antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 14246025824 | antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast (ex. "Give me liberty or give me death") | 7 | |
| 14246033085 | 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 | |
| 14246042558 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 9 | |
| 14246045560 | begging the question | a fallacy of logical argument that assumes as true the very thing that one is trying to prove (ex. 1. The Bible is the infallible word of God. 2. The Bible says that God exists. Therefore, 3. God exists.) | 10 | |
| 14246064551 | colloquial expression | words and phrases used in everyday speech but avoided in formal writing | 11 | |
| 14246067365 | complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 12 | |
| 14246070223 | connotation | an association that a word calls to mind in addition to its dictionary/literal meaning | 13 | |
| 14246080832 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 14 | |
| 14246082699 | dialect | a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group | 15 | |
| 14246084414 | didactic | intended to instruct but perceived as dull or overly formal | 16 | |
| 14246093352 | elegiac | mournful of that which is lost or past | 17 | |
| 14246095757 | ethos | the qualities of character, intelligence, and goodwill in an arguer that contribute to an audience's acceptance of the claim | 18 | |
| 14246107191 | 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 (ex. passed away for died) | 19 | |
| 14246115064 | explication | a detailed examination covering all aspects of work | 20 | |
| 14246119111 | fallacy | an error of reasoning based on faulty use of evidence or incorrect inference | 21 | |
| 14246131664 | 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 | |
| 14246134421 | 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 (ex. are you going to college to make something of yourself, or are you going to end up being an unemployable bum like me?) | 23 | |
| 14246152001 | hasty generalization | drawing conclusions based on insufficient or unrepresentative evidence | 24 | |
| 14246155052 | hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 25 | |
| 14246158655 | inversion | the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase for dramatic effect | 26 | |
| 14246165040 | juxtaposition | placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 27 | |
| 14246169074 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 28 | |
| 14246176514 | non sequitur | a statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it | 29 | |
| 14246182900 | parallelism | Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns. | 30 | |
| 14246187985 | periodic sentence structure | a sentence written so that the full meaning cannot be understood until the end | 31 | |
| 14246190255 | qualifier | a claim restriction that limits the claim by stating the claim may not always be true as stated | 32 | |
| 14246200786 | rhetoric | a technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form | 33 | |
| 14246204313 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues | 34 | |
| 14246208640 | sentence patterns | the arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex | 35 | |
| 14246210450 | simple sentence | a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate | 36 | |
| 14246215449 | subordinate clause | created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause | 37 | |
| 14246218684 | syllogism | a logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion | 38 | |
| 14246221672 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 39 | |
| 14246224699 | syntax | the pattern or structure of the word order in a sentence or phrase: the study of grammatical structure | 40 | |
| 14246229356 | tone | a writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels | 41 | |
| 14246232960 | understatement | deliberately representing something as much less than it really is | 42 | |
| 14246234925 | voice | in writing, a metaphor drawn from the spoken encompassing the writer's tone style and manner | 43 |
