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| 7294389976 | Ad Hominem Argument | Latin for "to or against the person," this fallacy involves switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker |  | 0 |
| 7294389977 | Ad Populum (bandwagon appeal) | This fallacy occurs when evidence boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do." |  | 1 |
| 7294389979 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something that is commonly known. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, or mythical. |  | 2 |
| 7294389981 | Analogy | A similarity or relationship between two things. An analogy can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with something more familiar. |  | 3 |
| 7294389985 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction. |  | 4 |
| 7294389988 | Attitude | A writer's position or emotion regarding the subject of the writing. |  | 5 |
| 7294389991 | Connotations | Meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition. Connotations are positive or negative. |  | 6 |
| 7294390004 | denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word. |  | 7 |
| 7294390005 | diction | related to style, diction refers to the writer's word choices. Examples of diction include, formal or informal, ornate or plain. |  | 8 |
| 7294390007 | ethos | A speaker's expertise, knowledge, experience, sincerity, and common purpose with the audience are examples of how a speaker demonstrates they are credible and trustworthy. |  | 9 |
| 7294390009 | extended metaphor | a metaphor developed at great length |  | 10 |
| 7294390011 | hyperbole | a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |  | 11 |
| 7294390012 | imagery | the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions |  | 12 |
| 7294390014 | irony | the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant; the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. |  | 13 |
| 7294390017 | metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparison of unlike things. Metaphorical language makes writing more vivid, imaginative, thought-provoking, and meaningful. |  | 14 |
| 7294390023 | parallelism/parallel construction/parallel structure | the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity |  | 15 |
| 7294390025 | pathos | a speaker's intent to inspire an emotional reaction in an audience |  | 16 |
| 7294390026 | personification | a figure of speech in which the author endows an inanimate object with human qualities or characteristics |  | 17 |
| 7294390030 | repetition | The duplication of any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, sentence, or grammatical pattern. | 18 | |
| 7294390031 | rhetoric | Greek for "orator" describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively |  | 19 |
| 7294390032 | logos | employs logical reasoning, combining a clear idea with well-thought-out and appropriate examples and details |  | 20 |
| 7294390043 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is related to it or emblematic of it. |  | 21 |
| 7294390048 | simile | an explicit comparison, using "like" or "as" |  | 22 |
| 7294390052 | syntax | the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences |  | 23 |
| 7294390055 | tone | tone describes the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both. |  | 24 |
| 7294390060 | Either/Or (false dilemma) | In this fallacy, the speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices. |  | 25 |
| 7294390062 | Hasty generalization | A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate information. Ex. Smoking isn't bad for you; my aunt smoked a pack a day and lived to be 90. |  | 26 |
| 7294405164 | post hoc ergo propter(post helicopter to proper helicopter) | reasoning that because one event follows another the previous event must have caused the later event | 27 | |
| 7294408732 | anaphora | repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of phrases,clauses, sentences, or verses | 28 | |
| 7294412024 | aphorism | a concise statement of a principle | 29 | |
| 7294413115 | apostrophe | a punctuation mark used to indicate possession or the omission of letters or numbers | 30 | |
| 7294425025 | paradox | a seemingly absurd or self contradictory statement that could be true | 31 | |
| 7294427685 | pun | a joke exploitiong the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings | 32 | |
| 7294432638 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 33 |
