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| 4814664989 | Converse Accident Fallacy | The fallacy of considering certain exceptional cases and generalizing to a rule that fits them alone. *(Ex: Wow! Did you see that teenager run that red light? Teenage drivers are really pathetic.)* | 0 | |
| 4814666396 | Coordinating Conjunction | A conjunction placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. *(Ex: And, Or, But)* | 1 | |
| 4814666397 | Deductive Reasoning | Generalization at the initial stage and then moves on towards the specific case. *(Ex: Since all humans are mortal, and I am a human, then I am mortal.)* | 2 | |
| 4814668556 | Deliberative Rhetoric | Speech or writing that attempts to persuade an audience to take (or not take) some action. | 3 | |
| 4814668557 | Demonstrative Rhetoric | Persuasive discourse dealing with values that bring a group together; the rhetoric of ceremony, commemoration, declamation, play, and display | 4 | |
| 4814669913 | Denotation | Literary/dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its associated meanings. | 5 | |
| 4814669914 | Diacope | Phrase or word broken up by other intervening (words that may come between) words. *(Ex: To be, or not to be.)* | 6 | |
| 4814669915 | Didactic | Teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson. | 7 | |
| 4814671448 | Dubitatio | A rhetorical term for the expression of doubt or uncertainty. | 8 | |
| 4814671449 | Ellipsis | A literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event; gives the reader a chance to fill the gaps while acting or reading it out. *(Ex: "...")* | 9 | |
| 4814675052 | Enargeia | A visually powerful description that vividly recreates something or someone in words. *(Ex: To do is to be. To be is to do. Do be do be do.)* | 10 | |
| 4814675053 | Enthymeme | An argumentative statement in which the writer or the speaker leaves out one of the major or minor conclusion statements; does not clearly pronounce it. | 11 | |
| 4814675063 | Enumeration | A rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. | 12 | |
| 4814678282 | Epideictic | Designed to display something, especially the skill of the speaker in rhetoric | 13 | |
| 4814678283 | Epithet | Literary device that describes a place, a thing or a person in that it helps in making the characteristics of them more prominent than they actually are. | 14 | |
| 4814679834 | Equivocation | The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself. | 15 | |
| 4814679835 | Eristic | Literary device in which the writers and speakers engage in a heated argumentation without reaching a conclusion or solving a particular issue | 16 | |
| 4814684305 | Erotesis (Rhetorical Question) | A rhetorical question implying strong affirmation or denial. | 17 | |
| 4814684306 | Ethos | Represents credibility or an ethical appeal which involves persuasion by the character involved. | 18 | |
| 4814695992 | Eunoia | Goodwill towards an audience, either perceived or real; the perception that the speaker has the audience's interest at heart. | 19 |
