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| 5040481848 | confirmation bias | tendency to view information in a way that validates our existing opinions and beliefs | 0 | |
| 5040490478 | conformation bias | Ex. Ignoring any news report or opinion broadcasted by Fox News because you usually disagree with the channels commentaries | 1 | |
| 5040501864 | Bandwagon Effect | making decisions on the basis of the majority opinion | 2 | |
| 5040506115 | bandwagon effect | ex. assuming that Justin Beiber is a good singer before hearing his music because Emily Ryan (as well as others) wears t-shirts that bear his image | 3 | |
| 5040514808 | wishful thinking | irrational optimism | 4 | |
| 5040517771 | wishful thinking | ex. feeling certain you will win the lottery, even if the odds are one in a million | 5 | |
| 5040540790 | framing bias | when the same issue is presented in different ways, we tend to respond differently | 6 | |
| 5040548839 | framing bias | ex. glass is half full, glass is half empty | 7 | |
| 5040552140 | clustering illusion | when data occurs in groups, people often read meaning into this grouping even if it is completely random | 8 | |
| 5040574612 | clustering illusion | ex. it's rained every Saturday for a month, so it's probably going to rain this Saturday | 9 | |
| 5040580737 | gamblers fallacy | people tend to think that the results of a random event will affect the probably of future outcomes | 10 | |
| 5040588266 | gamblers fallacy | ex. the idea that lightening never strikes the same place twice | 11 | |
| 5040593462 | halo effect | when we are exposed to someone with one positive quality, we tend to think there are other desirable characteristics about that person even if there are none | 12 | |
| 5040606568 | halo effect | ex. voting for the more attractive candidate because "he just seems more honest" | 13 | |
| 5040616517 | illusionary superiority | viewing oneself as better to others | 14 | |
| 5040622321 | illusionary superiority | ex. even though Colie has gotten in multiple car wrecks, she still considers herself a good driver | 15 | |
| 5040649241 | self-serving bias | claiming an undue amount of positive credit for a situation and below average amount for a negative one | 16 | |
| 5040659777 | self-serving bias | ex. taking credit for your daughters good grades, and blaming her bad study habits on her teacher | 17 | |
| 5040666287 | syllogism | type of deductive reasoning; a conclusion that must be true because the premises are true. | 18 | |
| 5040676648 | syllogism | ex. 1. All teachers assign homework 2. Mrs. Wiseheart is a teacher 3. Mrs. Wiseheart must assign homework | 19 | |
| 5040685063 | anaphora | repetition of the FIRST set of words | 20 | |
| 5040688271 | anaphora | ex. "I have a Dream" speech | 21 | |
| 5040697287 | epistrophe | repetition of the LAST set of words | 22 | |
| 5040704213 | epistrophe | ex. Vanessa is amazing. Emily is amazing. | 23 | |
| 5040708703 | syntax | way author chooses to join words, similar to diction | 24 | |
| 5040716045 | asyndeton | a string of words not separated by normally occurring junctions | 25 | |
| 5040732550 | asyndeton | ex. He comes, he sleeps, he goes | 26 | |
| 5040734968 | zeugma | two or more parts of a sentence are joined with a common verb or noun | 27 | |
| 5040739706 | zeugma | ex. I bought her story and her drink ex2. lust conquered shame, audacity fear, madness reason | 28 | |
| 5040888789 | allegory | using a character or story elements as a way to represent a certain idea | 29 | |
| 5040894743 | allegory | ex. having the characters personify hope or freedom | 30 | |
| 5040901360 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 31 | |
| 5040908284 | antecedent | ex. when giving treats to CHILDREN and FRIENDS, give them whatever THEY like. they=pronoun children & friends=? | 32 | |
| 5040939574 | caricature | verbal description used to exaggerate or distort (for comic effect) a persons physical features/ other characteristics | 33 | |
| 5040975981 | caricature | ex. her eyes were lazers, boring a hole through me | 34 | |
| 5040981747 | euphanism | less offensive word for an unpleasant word | 35 | |
| 5040984129 | euphanism | "earthly remains" instead of "corpse" | 36 | |
| 5040988615 | paradox | a statement that appears to be contradictory, but on a closer look appears to have some truth | 37 | |
| 5040997499 | paradox | ex. jumbo shrimp | 38 | |
| 5161515404 | allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art | 39 | |
| 5161519682 | allusion | ex. to be or not to be | 40 | |
| 5161536625 | antimetabole | the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause | 41 | |
| 5161550590 | antimetabole | ex. "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." -- Carl Sagan | 42 | |
| 5161561874 | colloquial/colloquialism | slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, give a work a conversational, familiar tone | 43 | |
| 5161561875 | colloquial/colloquialism | ex. its raining cats and dogs | 44 | |
| 5161572825 | homily | this term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice | 45 | |
| 5161576152 | homily | ex. A pastor giving a message at church service | 46 | |
| 5161585662 | parody | a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule | 47 | |
| 5161585663 | parody | ex. The Starving Games | 48 | |
| 5278368582 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings of a word/phrase (intentional/unintentional) | 49 | |
| 5278379414 | ambiguity | ex. I rode a black horse in red PJs | 50 | |
| 5278401308 | antithesis | two opposite ideas are put together to create a startling affect | 51 | |
| 5278424850 | antithesis | ex. I hope one day my children WILL NOT BE JUDGED BY THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN but by THE CONTEXT OF THEIR CHARACTER | 52 | |
| 5278436944 | conceit | extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects | 53 | |
| 5278446290 | conceit | ex. spill the beans, don't steal someone's thunder, dead as a doornail | 54 | |
| 5278491150 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration | 55 | |
| 5278493436 | hyperbole | ex. It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets | 56 | |
| 5278507088 | pedantic | describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish | 57 | |
| 5278507089 | pedantic | ex. Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory | 58 | |
| 5342685401 | anadiplosis | figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or terms in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of the next sentence, clause, or phrase | 59 | |
| 5342698355 | anadiplosis | Ex #2: "Kinetic energy is also known as the energy of motion. A vehicle's energy of motion doubles when its weight doubles. When a vehicle's weight doubles, it needs about twice the distance to stop." | 60 | |
| 5342738307 | aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle | 61 | |
| 5342738308 | aphorism | EX#1: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." EX#2: "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." | 62 | |
| 5342781038 | invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language | 63 | |
| 5342781039 | invective | EX: In Henry IV, Part I, Prince Hal calls the large character of Falstaff "this sanguine coward, this bedpresser, this horseback breaker, this huge hill of flesh." Gross. | 64 | |
| 5342790673 | litotes | a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. Think of this as the opposite of hyperbole. | 65 | |
| 5342790674 | litotes | EX: "It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain" | 66 | |
| 5342800199 | polysyndeton | a figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses. | 67 | |
| 5342800200 | polysyndeton | EX: "In years gone by, there were in every community men and women who spoke the language of duty and morality and loyalty and obligation." | 68 | |
| 5856646508 | non sequitur | A logical fallacy (from the Latin that literally translates to "it does not follow") in which the author states a conclusion that doesn't follow from one or both premises. | 69 | |
| 5856661789 | non sequitur | ex: I've lived in this town a long time - why, my grandfather was the first mayor - so I'm against putting fluoride in the drinking water. | 70 | |
| 5856674019 | hasty generalization | A logical fallacy in which the author leaps to a generalization from inadequate or faulty evidence. The most familiar example is the stereotype. | 71 | |
| 5856689766 | hasty generalization | EX: Men aren't sensitive enough to be day-care providers. EX: Women are too emotion to fight in combat. | 72 | |
| 5856706810 | either/or reasoning - | A logical fallacy that assumes that a reality may be divided into only two parts or extremes; assuming that a given problem has only one of two possible solutions. | 73 | |
| 5856706811 | either/or reasoning - | EX: What's to be done about the trade imbalance with Asia? Either we ban all Asian imports, or American industry will collapse. | 74 | |
| 5856721084 | ad hominem - | A logical fallacy (from the Latin "to the man") in which the author attacks a person's views by attacking his or her character. | 75 | |
| 5856724128 | ad hominem - | EX: Mayor Burns is divorced and estranged from his family. How can we listen to his pleas for a city nursing home? | 76 | |
| 5856739444 | slippery slope | A logical fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. In most cases, there are a series of steps or gradations between one event and the one in question and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps or gradations will simply be bypassed. | 77 | |
| 5856739445 | slippery slope | EX: "We've got to stop them from banning pornography. Once they start banning one form of literature, they will never stop. Next thing you know, they will be burning all the books!" | 78 | |
| 5856750766 | straw man | A logical fallacy in which a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the person. | 79 | |
| 5856750767 | straw man | EX: "Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us defenseless like that." | 80 | |
| 5967966783 | apathetic | indifferent due to lack of energy or concern | 81 | |
| 5967966784 | choleric | hot tempered | 82 | |
| 5967982930 | indignant | marked by anger aroused by injustice | 83 | |
| 5967988405 | patronizing | air of condescension | 84 | |
| 5967996804 | sardonic | scornfully and bitterly sarcastic | 85 |
