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| 6334746116 | Ad Hominem | Directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining. Ex: A lawyer attacking a person's character instead of the case. | 0 | |
| 6334746117 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. Ex: Sally sells seashells by the sea shore | 1 | |
| 6334944251 | Active Voice | A clause whose subject expresses the main verb's agent. Ex: Harry ate six shrimp at dinner. | 2 | |
| 6335187626 | Passive Voice | The noun or noun phrase that would be the object of an active sentence appears as the subject of a sentence or clause Ex: At dinner, six shrimp were eaten by Harry. | 3 | |
| 6335253121 | Anastrophe | The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses Ex: Glistens the dew upon the morning grass. | 4 | |
| 6335253122 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses Ex: I came, I saw, I conquered. | 5 | |
| 6335415381 | Argue from Ignorance | A fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proved false Ex: The belief of a god | 6 | |
| 6335415382 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas Ex: Man proposes, God disposes | 7 | |
| 6335415383 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth Ex: A barking dog never bites | 8 | |
| 6335558387 | Bandwagon Fallacy | The belief that an argument is valid because a majority of people accept it | 9 | |
| 6335558388 | Apostrophe | An arrangement of words addressing a non-existent person or an abstract idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings Ex: Is this dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. | 10 | |
| 6335616136 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun | 11 | |
| 6335629758 | Anadiplosis | The repetition of a word in successive clauses, the second clause begins with the ending of the previous clause Ex: The dog hates the cat, the cat hates the mouse, the mouse hates the fly | 12 | |
| 6335681572 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses Ex: O Lord rebuke me not ...., O Lord for I am..., O Lord heal me... | 13 | |
| 6336820360 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or a historic event | 14 | |
| 6336820361 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 15 | |
| 6336820362 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast Ex: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country | 16 |
