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| 6920994467 | accismus (as IS muss) | coyness; "Oh, you shouldn't have!" | 0 | |
| 6920995083 | ad hominem | attacking the person's character rather than her argument | 1 | |
| 6920998258 | adianoeta (ah dee ah no EE tah) | hidden meaning, secondary but contradictory meaning; "I know you guys are excited for the test." | 2 | |
| 6921016676 | a fortiori (a fort ee OR ee) | If something unlikely is true, this more likely thing must be true | 3 | |
| 6921018696 | anadiplosis | the last word of a clause starts the next clause; "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." (Yoda) | 4 | |
| 6921022627 | anaphora | repetition of the first word(s) in successive clauses | 5 | |
| 6921028019 | anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or object | 6 | |
| 6921029011 | antithesis | direct or exact opposites | 7 | |
| 6921035103 | aporia | real or pretend doubt | 8 | |
| 6921035914 | begging the question | similar to a tautology, this leaves out the beginning explanation and seems to rely on itself as sufficient proof | 9 | |
| 6921043485 | chiasmus | crisscross figure; specifically differs from antimetabole because the parts of speech change ("never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.") The exam uses them interchangeably. | 10 | |
| 6921048049 | antimetabole | crisscross figure; differs from chiasmus in that the parts of speech do not change ("Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.") The exam uses them interchangeably. | 11 | |
| 6921059522 | dichotomy | opposites on the same spectrum; the two sides of one coin. male/female, black/white, pass/fail. | 12 | |
| 6921064567 | circumlocution | talking around the issue to avoid getting to the point. | 13 | |
| 6921065749 | concessio | appearing to agree with your opponent and using it to your advantage | 14 | |
| 6921066908 | converse accident fallacy | using a bad example to make a generalization | 15 | |
| 6921070250 | deliberative rhetoric | argument about choices in the future and what is most advantageous for the group | 16 | |
| 6921072165 | demonstrative rhetoric | persuasion dealing with values that cohere a group; usually focuses on the present. | 17 | |
| 6921076722 | dialectic | purely logical debate designed to discover the truth through dialogue | 18 | |
| 6921080038 | dialysis | "this not that;" "don't just visit Fiji...experience it." | 19 | |
| 6921130814 | diazeugma | a single subject with multiple verbs; "The seven of us discussed, argued, tried, failed, tried again." (Patrick Rothfuss) | 20 | |
| 6921134759 | zeugma | a single verb for multiple subjects; "She wore a pink hat and a cute smile." | 21 | |
| 6921139038 | syllepsis | A sub-set of zeugma in which the modifier changes meaning or usage when applied to the second word (e.g., literal to figurative). ("His boat and his dreams sank." "He held his breath and the door.") | 22 | |
| 6921148071 | disinterest | freedom from special interests. Uninterested means you don't care; disinterested means you have nothing riding on the outcome (no "skin in the game"). | 23 | |
| 6921157357 | dubitatio (doob it AH tee oh) | personal aporia; when you pretend you can't speak well, like Antony does in Julius Caesar. | 24 | |
| 6921162041 | enargeia (en AR gay uh) | vivid description so the audience can "see" it | 25 | |
| 6921165714 | enthymeme | a syllogism that leaves out part everyone already knows/believes. ("Does this place look like I'm . . . married? The toilet seat's up, man!"--The Big Lebowski). The premise that a married man would put the toilet seat down is elided. | 26 | |
| 6921173655 | syllogism | formal logical argument consisting of 2 premises (major & minor) and a conclusion. If the premises are true, the conclusion should be true (see deductive and inductive). | 27 | |
| 6921178832 | deductive logic | Deductive is Definite; if deductive premises are true, the conclusion is definitely true. Often rendered as general to specific, which is mostly accurate. | 28 | |
| 6921182043 | inductive logic | Inductive is Iffy; if inductive premises are true, the conclusion is probably true. Often rendered as specific to general. | 29 | |
| 6921195314 | epergesis (ee per GEE sis) | correction, adding an appositive to clarify or correct. Metanoia is when you retract what you said and replace it. | 30 | |
| 6921217920 | equivocation | ambiguous language to conceal the truth | 31 | |
| 6921235509 | eristic | competitive argument for the sake of arguing, not getting to truth or agreement | 32 | |
| 6921241620 | exemplum | a story told to support the argument | 33 | |
| 6921243344 | hypophora | a rhetorical question that the speaker answers immediately | 34 | |
| 6921249213 | ignoratio elenchi (ig no ROT ee oh / eh LEN chee) | proving the wrong conclusion; ex: if you proved that textbooks are too expensive but not that school budgets should be reduced. | 35 | |
| 6921265334 | cataplexis (also jeremiad) | prophecy of doom, often related to the slippery slope fallacy in which there is a snowball effect of bad things leading to unrealistic disaster. | 36 | |
| 6921270061 | kairos | timeliness; often "we need to do this now!" or making an argument at the right time to best convince the audience | 37 | |
| 6921278352 | litotes (lie TOE tees or lee TOE tees) | ironic understatement; "You won't be sorry" or "You don't look half bad today." | 38 | |
| 6921287912 | metanoia | replacing what you said with a better version. epergesis is adding an appositive to clarify. | 39 | |
| 6921292041 | metastasis | glossing over the bad parts to get to the conclusion "Sure, it's going to cost a bit more, but it's worth it." | 40 | |
| 6921295587 | metonymy | using something related to represent the whole "The White House issued a press statement." (vs. synecdoche, which uses a part of something to represent it) | 41 | |
| 6921303065 | synecdoche (sin ECK doh key) | using part to represent the whole (mnemonic: your NECK is a PART of you--sounds like syNECKdoche). "All hands on deck" or "Get your butt in here" (vs. metonymy, which uses something related to represent something) | 42 | |
| 6921314723 | non sequitur | literally "doesn't follow," a point that doesn't fit in the logical argument | 43 | |
| 6921317751 | paradigm | a general rule that arises from examples, a way of looking at things based on experience | 44 | |
| 6921323913 | paradox | seems false/contradictory but turns out to be true. "To be less eloquent would actually be more eloquent." An oxymoron is a 2-word paradox ("living death"). | 45 | |
| 6921333515 | paralipsis | saying you wouldn't mention something...which means you are mentioning it. "I don't want to have to bring up the last time this happened..." (very similar to apophasis, which you will see on a different Quizlet) | 46 | |
| 6921339006 | paraprosdokian | a surprise conclusion, usually humorous. "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research." | 47 | |
| 6921360667 | phronesis (fro NEE sis) | practical wisdom, street smarts | 48 | |
| 6921362411 | polysyndeton | lots of conjunctions; opposite of asyndeton | 49 | |
| 6921365566 | post hoc (post hoc ergo propter hoc) | Event B followed Event A, so Event A must have caused Event B. I got a headache after the clouds appeared, so my headache must be from the change in weather. | 50 | |
| 6921368138 | cum hoc (cum hoc ergo propter hoc) | these two things happened at the same time and must be correlated. see http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations | 51 | |
| 6921386864 | prolepsis | anticipating the counterargument (procatalepsis is when you go ahead and counter it in your speech) | 52 | |
| 6921391690 | red herring | distraction from the real point, like derailing an argument by quibbling about definitions or bringing up irrelevant comparisons | 53 | |
| 6921411751 | reductio ad absurdum | "reduction to the absurd"--when you take your opponent's argument so far down the logical rabbit hole that you make it ridiculous. Often related to the slippery slope fallacy. | 54 | |
| 6921415429 | solecism | ignorance--bad logic, grammar, or syntax | 55 | |
| 6921421664 | sophistry | using fallacies, especially on purpose to deceive | 56 | |
| 6921421665 | solipsism | the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist, can be used as a cheap trick to get out of arguments | 57 | |
| 6921435220 | straw man fallacy | arguing against a grossly simplified version of the argument instead of the actual argument. "Oh, so you environmentalists want to stop all construction just so one stupid owl doesn't lose its nest!" | 58 | |
| 6921446363 | syncrisis | juxtaposition to show worth. "While she studied, he played Mario Cart--guess who passed the test!" OR "It's not manipulation; it's instruction." | 59 | |
| 6921452556 | tautology | defining the thing with the thing. My mom used to tell me I had to respect her because she was my mom and she told me so. True, but you can't use your own authority to validate your authority--you need outside support. | 60 | |
| 6921707248 | mythos | shared background or history, a common viewpoint. Heinrichs uses the term commonplace; mythos is from Aristotle's rhetorical situation. A commonplace might be a cliche, whereas mythos will be a set of societal assumptions, like that the founding fathers were good, selfless men. | 61 |
