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| 9948682024 | vituperative | bitter and abusive | 0 | |
| 9948685274 | pedantic | unimaginative; dull | 1 | |
| 9948685275 | exhortative | acting or intended to encourage, incite, or advise. | 2 | |
| 9948687219 | ad-hoc fallacy | When a person poses an explanation that is disputed by evidence the person has to resort to untestable answers to salvage their claim. Thus, most ad hoc rationalizations do not really "explain" anything at all. | 3 | |
| 9948687220 | straw man argument | an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent. (Making a new argument that is easier to argue than the real one.) | 4 | |
| 9948690009 | ad hominem | genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument | 5 | |
| 9948690010 | syllogism | an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs ). | 6 | |
| 9948694767 | sanguine | optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation. | 7 | |
| 9948697321 | servile | having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others | 8 | |
| 9948703584 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 9 | |
| 9948706606 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 10 | |
| 9948708057 | elegaic | sorrowful, mournful, melancholic | 11 | |
| 9948711207 | apostrophe | a figure of speech sometimes represented by an exclamation, such as "Oh." A writer or speaker speaks directly to someone who is not present or is dead, or speaks to an inanimate object. | 12 | |
| 9948711208 | parallelism | a literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction. It can be a word, a phrase, or an entire sentence repeated. King's famous 'I have a dream' repetition makes the speech compelling and rhythmic, as well as memorable. | 13 | |
| 9948717778 | spatial organization | items are described according to their physical position or relationships. In describing a shelf or desk, I might describe items on the left first, then move gradually toward the right. | 14 | |
| 9948717779 | denotation | the literal, dictionary definition of a word. | 15 | |
| 9948717800 | inversion | in literary style and rhetoric, the reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence, as, in English, the placing of an adjective after the noun it modifies ("the form divine"), a verb before its subject ("Came the dawn"). Also called anastrophe. | 16 | |
| 9948723241 | anecdotal evidence | the opposite of scientific evidence because the former is driven by personal opinion and the latter is based on experimentation, methodology, and objective verification. | 17 | |
| 9948723242 | antithesis | The use of contrasting concepts, words, or sentences within parallel grammatical structures. | 18 | |
| 9948726684 | syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 19 | |
| 9948729290 | periodic sentence | has the main clause or predicate at the end. This is used for emphasis and can be persuasive by putting reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made. It can also create suspense or interest for the reader. | 20 | |
| 9948754491 | ellipsis | ... | 21 |
