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| 12172369735 | Metonymy | an entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations | 0 | |
| 12172384547 | Synecdoche | A part of something used to refer to the whole | 1 | |
| 12172391873 | Apostrophe | The direct address of an absent person or personified object as if he/she is able to reply | 2 | |
| 12172401949 | Litote | Understatement | 3 | |
| 12172404546 | Simile | A type of comparison that uses the word like or as. | 4 | |
| 12172410148 | Metaphor | An implied comparison that does not use the word like or as | 5 | |
| 12172417034 | Personification | The giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects | 6 | |
| 12172429059 | Anthropomorphism | The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. | 7 | |
| 12172437304 | Allusion | A reference in a written or spoken text to another text or to some particular body of knowledge | 8 | |
| 12172446648 | Zeugma | A trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning. | 9 | |
| 12172450117 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure | 10 | |
| 12172462770 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | 11 | |
| 12172467883 | Anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 12 | |
| 12172478837 | Anastrophe | Inversion or reversal of usual order of words | 13 | |
| 12172487565 | Anaphora | The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 14 | |
| 12172497599 | Antanaclasis | Repetition of a word in two different senses | 15 | |
| 12172506897 | Chiasmus | Inverted relationship between two elements in two parallel phrases. | 16 | |
| 12172509805 | Anthimeria | The substitution of one part of speech for another | 17 | |
| 12172514640 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between related clauses | 18 | |
| 12172526395 | Polysyndeton | The use of several conjunctions | 19 | |
| 12172534588 | Epistophe | The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses | 20 | |
| 12172546567 | Epithet | A word or phrase adding a characteristic to a person's name | 21 | |
| 12172553752 | Ploce | A word is separated by way of emphasis | 22 | |
| 12172564989 | Synthesia | A combination of the senses | 23 | |
| 12172564990 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words | 24 | |
| 12172581065 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 25 | |
| 12172604069 | Consonance | The repetition of sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase | 26 | |
| 12172610265 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration for effect | 27 | |
| 12172617758 | Idiom | A saying, phrase, or fixed expression in a culture that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning | 28 | |
| 12172648564 | Oxymoron | Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings | 29 | |
| 12172695725 | Onomatopoeia | A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning | 30 | |
| 12172706586 | Understatement | Deliberate playing down of a situation in order to make a point | 31 | |
| 12172726339 | Paradox | A contradictory statement or contradictory ideas, but upon close inspection, seems to contain some truth | 32 | |
| 12172750401 | Juxtaposition | The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 33 | |
| 12172766002 | Parallel Structure | A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appear in a sentence or paragraph | 34 | |
| 12172786105 | Diction | Word choice, which is viewed on scales of formality, concreteness/ abstraction, Litinate derivation/ Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative. | 35 | |
| 12173413422 | Syntax | The order of words in a sentence | 36 | |
| 12173417360 | Aphorism | A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner | 37 | |
| 12173429720 | Malapropism | Using words, particularly polysyllabic words, incorrectly | 38 | |
| 12173493781 | Non Sequitor Fallacy | An even more illogical connection of cause/effect, in which event A clearly has nothing to do with event B. The evidence offered does not support the conclusion that is reached. | 39 | |
| 12173537876 | Post-Hoc Fallacy | Just because event A happened before event B, you assume that event A caused event B | 40 | |
| 12173559724 | Ad Hominem Argument | You attack the person instead of the person's argument or point of view on a subject | 41 | |
| 12173569975 | Red Herring | You intentionally digress from the real issue being discussed, introducing a side issue that has nothing to do with the real issue under discussion - in an attempt to remove attention from the real issue | 42 | |
| 12173607933 | Hasty/Sweeping Generalization | You've reached a conclusion based on only a little evidence that might be relevant but is not typical | 43 | |
| 12173638451 | Straw Man | A misrepresentation of the opponent's view; making claims that no one actually believes to be true. | 44 | |
| 12173653456 | Appeal to Authority | In a text, the reference to words, actions, or beliefs of a person in authority as a means of supporting a claim, generalization, or conclusion | 45 | |
| 12173673011 | Appeal to Tradition | Fallacy in which something is accepted a true or better because it's the "way it's always been done." | 46 | |
| 12173685981 | Appeal to Religion | Occurs when someone argues that you must first accept the truth of a statement in order to be able to rationally accept the truth of the statement | 47 | |
| 12173706672 | Ethos | The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator | 48 | |
| 12173716181 | Pathos | The appeal of a text to the emotions or interests of the audience | 49 | |
| 12173725192 | Logos | The appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its argument or central ideas | 50 | |
| 12173746641 | Begging the Question | Asking the reader to assume that something is true without proving it first - especially flawed if that "something" is controversial | 51 |
