literary terms, rhetorical devices, or fallacies
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| 191435426 | Ad Hominem | appealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason) | |
| 191435393 | Allegory | Extended metaphor | |
| 191435382 | Allusion | indirect reference | |
| 191435385 | Anachronism | something out of place or time | |
| 191435384 | Analogy | A correspondence or partial similarity. | |
| 191435386 | Anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of sentences. | |
| 191435388 | Antithesis | A contrast or opposition between two things. | |
| 191435394 | Aphorism | a brief saying that embodys a moral. | |
| 191435392 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | |
| 191435414 | Archetype | an original model | |
| 191435396 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | |
| 191435398 | Asyndeton | lack of conjunctions between phrases, clauses or words | |
| 191435433 | Bandwagon | to advertise | |
| 191435427 | Begging the Question | is when the truth of the conclusion is assumed by the premises | |
| 191435413 | Bombast | lofty | |
| 191435400 | Chiasmus | concepts are repeated in reverse order | |
| 191435395 | Connotation | an implied meaning of a word. Opposite of denotation. | |
| 191435380 | Consonance | the repetition of consonants especially at the ends of words | |
| 191435404 | Denotation | dictionary meaning | |
| 199845317 | dramatic irony | is when an audience knows something that a character does not know. | |
| 191435422 | Elegy | a mournful poem | |
| 191435397 | Epigram | A short poem | |
| 191435406 | Epithet | An adjective | |
| 191435428 | Ethos | ethical | |
| 191435399 | Euphemism | the use of roundabout language to replace unpleasant terms | |
| 191435423 | Hamartia | a mistake of a hero that leads to his downfall | |
| 191435421 | Hubris | excessive pride | |
| 191435408 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration . Opposite of Understatement | |
| 191435391 | Imagery | language that appeals to the 5 senses | |
| 191435410 | Irony | language that normally signifies the opposite | |
| 191435403 | Juxtaposition | it's when one theme or idea is paralleled to another. | |
| 191435430 | Logos | the logical appeal | |
| 191435401 | Malapropism | the unintentional misuse of a word | |
| 191435412 | Metonymy | substituting a word for another word closely associated with it. | |
| 191435405 | Motif | A decorative design or pattern. A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition. | |
| 191435432 | Non Sequitur | is a statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument | |
| 191435416 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | |
| 191435424 | Paradigm | typical example | |
| 191435420 | Paradox | A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. | |
| 191435418 | Parallelism | the use of corresponding grammatical forms | |
| 191435429 | Pathos | passion/emotion | |
| 191435381 | Personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to inhuman objects. | |
| 191435407 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told | |
| 191435409 | Pun | a humorous play | |
| 191435431 | Red Herring | a clue that is intended to be misleading | |
| 191435383 | Rhetorical Question | a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered | |
| 191435411 | Satire | literary tone used to make fun of human weakness | |
| 199845318 | situational irony | is when the outcome is different from what was expected | |
| 191435402 | Straw Man | the creation of an easily refutable position to attack an opponent's position.(Over personification) | |
| 191435415 | Stream of Consciousness | a variant of the limited third-person point of view; | |
| 191435425 | Syllogism | Deductive reasoning | |
| 191435387 | Synecdoche | part is used for the whole or the whole for a part | |
| 191435417 | Syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | |
| 191435390 | Understatement | This device is used to understate the obvious.(Opposite of exaggeration) | |
| 199845319 | Verbal irony | is when an author says one thing and means something else | |
| 191435419 | Verse | a poem | |
| 191435389 | Zeugma | A sentence correctly used for one not whole Ex;He CLOSED the DOOR and his HEART on his lost love. |
