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| 9700782965 | 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 |
| 9700782966 | 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 |
| 9700782968 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something that is commonly known. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, or mythical. |  | 2 |
| 9700782970 | analogy | A similarity or relationship between two things. It can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with something more familiar. |  | 3 |
| 9700782972 | antithesis | A figure of speech that involves an opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction. |  | 4 |
| 9700782973 | Appeal to False Authority | This fallacy occurs when someone who has no expertise on a subject is cited as an authority. |  | 5 |
| 9700782974 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction. |  | 6 |
| 9700782975 | archaic diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words |  | 7 |
| 9700782976 | asyndenton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. |  | 8 |
| 9700782979 | concession | An acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable. |  | 9 |
| 9700782982 | counterargument | An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward |  | 10 |
| 9700782983 | chiasmus | A figure of speech based on inverted parallelism. It is a rhetorical figure in which two clauses are related to each other through a reversal of terms. |  | 11 |
| 9700782984 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order; a type of chiasmus, but not all chiasmus are antimetabole. |  | 12 |
| 9700782985 | colloquialism | Slang or informality in speech or writing |  | 13 |
| 9700782996 | 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. |  | 14 |
| 9700782997 | euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts |  | 15 |
| 9700783000 | hyperbole | a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |  | 16 |
| 9700783001 | imagery | the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions |  | 17 |
| 9700783003 | 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. |  | 18 |
| 9700783004 | juxtaposition | placing dissimilar items, descriptions, or ideas closely together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. |  | 19 |
| 9700783006 | metaphor | A figure of speech using implied comparison of unlike things that can make writing more vivid, imaginative, thought-provoking, and meaningful. |  | 20 |
| 9700783011 | onomatopoeia | a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sound of words |  | 21 |
| 9700783012 | parallelism | the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity |  | 22 |
| 9700783014 | pathos | a speaker's intent to inspire an emotional reaction in an audience |  | 23 |
| 9700783015 | personification | a figure of speech in which the author endows an inanimate object with human qualities or characteristics |  | 24 |
| 9700783019 | repetition | The duplication of any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, sentence, or grammatical pattern. | 25 | |
| 9700783021 | logos | employs logical reasoning, combining a clear idea with well-thought-out and appropriate examples and details |  | 26 |
| 9700783026 | polysyndeton | The deliberate use of multiple conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. |  | 27 |
| 9700783032 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is represented by another thing that is related to it or emblematic of it. |  | 28 |
| 9700783033 | synecdoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole. Ex. "All hands on deck!" |  | 29 |
| 9700783034 | zeugma/syllepsis | The use of a word to modify two or more words when it is appropriate to use only one of them or is appropriate to use each but in a different way. Ex. "To wage war and peace" or "On his fishing trip he caught three trout and a cold." |  | 30 |
| 9700783035 | rhetorical question | a question that is asked merely for effect and does not expect a reply |  | 31 |
| 9700783037 | simile | an explicit comparison, using "like" or "as" |  | 32 |
| 9700783049 | Either/Or Fallacy (false dilemma) | In this fallacy, the speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices. |  | 33 |
| 9700783050 | First-hand evidence | Evidence based on something the writer knows, whether it's from personal experience or observations. | 34 | |
| 9700783052 | periodic sentence | type of sentence that places the subordinate elements first with the main clause/primary point at the end of the sentence | 35 |
