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| 8460871941 | Ad hominem | The character attack. Logicians and the argument-averse consider it a bad thing, but in rhetoric it's a necessity. | 0 | |
| 8460894987 | Allusion | A literary, historical, religious, or mythological in a literary work. | 1 | |
| 8460910842 | Anaphora | The regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses. | 2 | |
| 8460925776 | Antecedent | A substantive word, phrase, or clause whose detonation is referred to by a pronoun; broadly - a word or phrase replaced by a substitute. | 3 | |
| 8460957240 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. (Juxtaposition is when ideas or images are placed side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.) | 4 | |
| 8460998776 | Appositive | An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words. Example - The insect, a cockroach, is crawling across the kitchen table. | 5 | |
| 8461066053 | Apporia | Doubt or ignorance - feigned or real-used as a rhetorical device. | 6 | |
| 8461082982 | Argument | A process of reasoned inquiry. A persuasive discourse resulting in a coherent and considered movement from a claim to a conclusion. | 7 | |
| 8461105328 | Assertion | A statement that presents a claim or thesis. | 8 | |
| 8461121154 | Begging the question | An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evades or ignores the real question. | 9 | |
| 8461153813 | Canon | The list of works considered to be permanently established as being of the highest quality. Example - Hopkins was firmly established in the canon of English poetry. | 10 | |
| 8461180454 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second. | 11 | |
| 8461204574 | Claim | Also called an assertion or proposition, a claim states the argument's main idea or position. A claim differs from a topic or subject in that a claim has to be arguable. | 12 | |
| 8461260962 | Colloquial | A term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area. | 13 | |
| 8461272222 | Concession | You seem to agree with your opponent's point, only to use it to your advantage. | 14 | |
| 8461288358 | Connotation | The implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase. | 15 | |
| 8461300567 | Coordination | Coordination is the joining of words, phrases, or clauses of the same type to give them equal emphasis and importance. The common conjunctions and, but, for, not, yet and so to join the elements of a coordinate construction. | 16 | |
| 8461337507 | Deductive Reasoning | The method of argument in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principles - movement from the general to the specific. | 17 | |
| 8462908861 | Deliberative rhetoric | One of three types of rhetorical persuasion (the other two are forensic and demonstrative). Deliberative rhetoric deals with arguments about choices. It concerns itself with matters that affect the future; its chief topic, according to Aristotle, is the "advantageous"---what's best for the family, community, company, or country. Without deliberative rhetoric, democracy is impossible. | 18 | |
| 8467631671 | Dialect | The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group. | 19 | |
| 8467659675 | Didactic | Writing or speech that has an instructive purpose or a lesson; often associated with a dry, pompous presentation. | 20 | |
| 8467690655 | Enthymeme | Taking a commonly accepted premise and linking it to a conclusion. For instance, "Girls like guys who can dance. You should learn to dance." A small piece of logic. | 21 | |
| 8467728382 | Equivocation | This appears to say one thing while meaning the opposite, and it occurs when a word has multiple meanings. | 22 | |
| 8467777451 | Example | The foundation of inductive logic. Aristotle listed three kinds- fact, comparison, and fable (story). | 23 | |
| 8467813091 | Forensic rhetoric | Argument that determines guilt or innocence. It focuses on the past. | 24 | |
| 8467831862 | Genre | A type of class of literature, such as epic, narrative, poetry, biography, history | 25 | |
| 8467866106 | Hyperbole | Overstatement characterized by exaggerated language, usually to make a point or draw attention. | 26 | |
| 8467894899 | Hypophora | A figure that asks a rhetorical question and then immediately answers it. The hypophora allows you to anticipate an audience's skepticism and nip it in the bud. Example - "What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tuck in the misty mist, or the dusky duck? What makes the muskrat guard his musk?Courage! (The Cowardly Lion in the The Wizard of Oz, 1939). | 27 | |
| 8468003828 | Idiom | Inseparable words with a single meaning. (It's Greek to me; the whole ball of wax; in a pickle; quit cold turkey. | 28 | |
| 8468037143 | Imperative sentence | Sentence used to command. | 29 | |
| 8468041600 | Inductive reasoning | The method of reasoning or argument in which general statements and conclusions are drawn from specific principles - movement from specific to the general. | 30 | |
| 8468086551 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order). | 31 | |
| 8468141479 | Jargon | Specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group. | 32 | |
| 8468164451 | Juxtaposition | The location of one thing adjacent to another to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose. | 33 | |
| 8468193804 | Litotes | A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement | 34 | |
| 8468215805 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something. | 35 | |
| 8468249441 | Neologism | A new word. (Example - "selfie") | 36 | |
| 8468257490 | Parody | An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. | 37 | |
| 8468286837 | Periodic Sentence | A long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end. | 38 | |
| 8468302837 | Persona | Voice or mask that an author or speaker or performer puts on for a particular purpose. | 39 | |
| 8468322282 | Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc | A happened before B; therefore, A caused B. | 40 | |
| 8468361231 | Pun | A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. | 41 | |
| 8468380712 | Scheme | Artful syntax; a deviation from the normal order of words. Common schemes include parallelism, juxtaposition, antithesis, and antimatabole. | 42 | |
| 8468417786 | Subordination | The process of linking two clauses in a sentence so that one clause is dependent on(or subordinate to) another. Contrast with coordination. | 43 | |
| 8468460862 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part signifies a whole. | 44 | |
| 8468466175 | Syntax | The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. Basically, sentence structure. | 45 | |
| 8468489140 | Synthesize | Combining two or more ideas in order to create something more complex in support of a new idea. | 46 | |
| 8468512629 | Trope | Rhetorical device that produces a shift in the meaning of words--traditionally contrasted with a scheme, which changes only the shape of a phrase. | 47 | |
| 8468539804 | Zuegma | A grammatically correct construction in which a word usually a verb or adjective, is applied to two or more nouns without repeated. | 48 |
