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| 5563566488 | ambivalent | of two minds, undecided | 0 | |
| 5563567999 | antipathetic | repulsed, feeling or expressing hostility | 1 | |
| 5563571148 | didactic | instructive, esp. "moralizing" | 2 | |
| 5563574882 | doleful | mournful, dismal, sad, dejected, woeful, despondent | 3 | |
| 5563578367 | enjoining | forceful, prohibiting or forbidding, imposing | 4 | |
| 5563581647 | insouciant | carefree, indifferent, calm, and unbothered | 5 | |
| 5563583502 | lugubrious | mournful, dismal, sad, dejected, woeful, despondent | 6 | |
| 5563586435 | pedantic | unnecessarily focused on trivial or insignificant or dull facts, arcane | 7 | |
| 5563595874 | polemical | argumentative, esp. against a philosophy, religion | 8 | |
| 5563601068 | querulous | whiny, complaining, petulant | 9 | |
| 5563603058 | sardonic | disdainfully sarcastic, mocking, derisive | 10 | |
| 5563610885 | conflate | combine (2 or more texts) into one | 11 | |
| 5563621083 | scare tactic | stampedes legitimate fears into panic or prejudice | 12 | |
| 5563623168 | either/or fallacy | reduces a complex issue into only 2 choices | 13 | |
| 5563628300 | slippery slope | casts today's tiny misstep as tomorrow's slide into disaster | 14 | |
| 5563634580 | sentimental appeal | uses tender emotions excessively to distract from facts | 15 | |
| 5563637803 | bandwagon appeal | urges people to follow the same path everyone else is taking | 16 | |
| 5563643046 | false authority | cites themselves or other authorities | 17 | |
| 5563648396 | dogmatism | attempts to persuade by asserting or assuming that a particular position is the only one conceivably acceptable within a community | 18 | |
| 5563664336 | moral equivalence | suggests that serious wrongdoings don't differ from minor offenses (or visa versa) | 19 | |
| 5563670333 | ad hominem | attacks the character of a person rather than the claims he/she makes | 20 | |
| 5563673547 | hasty generalization | infers from insufficient evidence | 21 | |
| 5563677294 | faulty causality | assumes that because one event or action follows another, the first causes the second | 22 | |
| 5563680527 | begging the question, circular reasoning | assumes as true the very claim that's disputed | 23 | |
| 5563684272 | equivocation | uses tricks of language and half-truth | 24 | |
| 5563690293 | nonsequitur | makes claims that fail to connect logically | 25 | |
| 5563692007 | straw man | misrepresents the argument of the other side to make it easy to knock down | 26 | |
| 5563695331 | faulty analogy | pushes comparisons to far | 27 | |
| 5563700200 | acerbic | bitter, caustic, barbed, cutting | 28 | |
| 5563702230 | reverent | deferential, worshipful, respectful | 29 | |
| 5563703906 | condescending | patronizing, haughty, arrogant | 30 | |
| 5563712789 | judicious | sensible, cautious | 31 | |
| 5563712790 | sobering | making someone give serious thought to important things | 32 | |
| 5563715214 | invective | diatribe, attack, abuse, criticism | 33 | |
| 5563717378 | esoteric | obscure, cryptic, arcane, mysterious | 34 | |
| 5563720815 | opprobrious | critical, scornful, contemptuous, disgraceful, shameful | 35 | |
| 5563742350 | repugnance | disgust, revulsion | 36 | |
| 5563746777 | raillery | humorous, playful, or friendly ridiculing of someone | 37 | |
| 5563755563 | ad populum (bandwagon appeal) | latin for "to the people," this fallacy occurs when evidence used to defend an argument boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do." | 38 | |
| 5563811630 | allegory | a literary work that portrays that abstract ideas concretely | 39 | |
| 5563818156 | alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words or syllable in sequences | 40 | |
| 5563832078 | allusion | brief reference to a person, an event, or a place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art | 41 | |
| 5563842529 | analogy | a comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 42 | |
| 5563850882 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 43 | |
| 5563855318 | anecdote | brief story used to illustrate a point or claim | 44 | |
| 5563857685 | annotation | the taking of notes directly on a text | 45 | |
| 5563883273 | antimetable | repetition of words in reverse order | 46 | |
| 5563885372 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 47 | |
| 5563893265 | apostrophe | a direct address to an abstraction, a thing, an animal, or an imaginary or absent person | 48 | |
| 5563899630 | appeal to false authority | this fallacy occurs when someone who has no credibility to speak on an issue is cited as an authority. | 49 | |
| 5563936702 | archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | 50 | |
| 5563948675 | argument | a process of reasoned inquiry. | 51 | |
| 5563950756 | assertion | a statement that presents a claim or thesis | 52 | |
| 5563954849 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words | 53 | |
| 5563957849 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 54 | |
| 5563976186 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text | 55 | |
| 5563980397 | backing | further assurances or data without which the assumption lacks authority | 56 | |
| 5563992310 | begging the question | a fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt | 57 | |
| 5564003553 | bias | a prejudice or preconceived notion that prevents a person from approaching a topic in a neutral or an objective way | 58 | |
| 5564013489 | blank verse | rhymed iambic pentameter | 59 | |
| 5564019183 | caesura | a pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated, sometimes not, that often mirrors natural speech | 60 | |
| 5564030980 | characterization | the method by which author builds, or reveals, a character; it can be direct or indirect | 61 | |
| 5564039667 | circular reasoning | a fallacy in which the argument repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence | 62 | |
| 5564043126 | claim | also called an assertion or proposition, a claim states the argument's main idea or position | 63 | |
| 5564220558 | claim of fact | asserts that something is true or not true | 64 | |
| 5564226469 | claim of policy | proposes a change | 65 | |
| 5564228605 | claim of value | argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong | 66 | |
| 5564233318 | classical oration | five-part argument structure used by classical rhetoricians. | 67 | |
| 5564241682 | introduction | introduces the reader to the subject under discussion | 68 | |
| 5564243722 | narration | provides factual information and background material on the subject at hand or establishes why the subject is a problem that needs addressing | 69 | |
| 5564248349 | confirmation | usually the major part of the text, the confirmation includes the proof needed to make the writer's case | 70 | |
| 5564256064 | refutation | addresses the counterargument | 71 | |
| 5564258002 | conclusion | brings the essay to satisfying close | 72 | |
| 5564265747 | closed thesis | statement of the main idea of the argument that also previews the major points the writer intends to make | 73 | |
| 5564269558 | complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 74 | |
| 5564273989 | compound sentence | a sentence that includes at least two independent clause | 75 | |
| 5564287047 | concession | an acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasoning | 76 | |
| 5564292482 | connotation | meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation | 77 | |
| 5564303524 | context | the circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text | 78 | |
| 5564309365 | counterargument | an opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward | 79 | |
| 5564315204 | counterargument thesis | type of thesis statement that includes a brief counterargument | 80 | |
| 5564323305 | cumulative sentence | a sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 81 | |
| 5564326490 | deduction | logical process wherein you reach a conclusion by starting with a general principle or universal truth and applying it to a specific case | 82 | |
| 5564332304 | diction | a speaker's choice of words | 83 | |
| 5564335970 | ekphrasis | art or writing comments on another genre | 84 | |
| 5564355401 | enjambment | a poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and continues to the next line to complete its meaning also referred to as a "run-on line" | 85 | |
| 5564364755 | enthymeme | essentially, a syllogism with one of the premises implied and taken for granted as true | 86 | |
| 5564367291 | epigram | a short, witty statement designed to surprise an audience or a reader | 87 | |
| 5564369895 | epigraph | a quotation preceding a work of literature that helps set the text's mood or suggests its themes | 88 | |
| 5564377411 | equivocation | a fallacy that uses a term with two or more meanings in an attempt to misrepresent or deceive | 89 | |
| 5564392036 | ethos | Greek for "character" | 90 | |
| 5564393725 | eulogy | a poem, speech, or another work written in great praise of something or someone | 91 | |
| 5564405178 | faulty analogy | a fallacy that occurs when an analogy compares not comparable | 92 | |
| 5564410514 | figurative language | non literal language, often evoking strong imagery, sometimes referred to as a trope | 93 | |
| 5564432813 | first-hand evidence | evidence based on something the writer knows, whether from personal experience, observation, or general knowledge of events | 94 | |
| 5564442351 | form | refers to defining structural characteristics of work, especially a poem | 95 | |
| 5564447520 | hasty generalization | a fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence | 96 | |
| 5564459019 | hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action | 97 | |
| 5564463548 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or an ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point | 98 | |
| 5564481863 | iambic pentameter | an iamb, the most common metrical foot in English poetry, is made up of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one | 99 | |
| 5564494122 | imagery | a description of how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, or sounds | 100 | |
| 5564503932 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 101 | |
| 5564508030 | induction (generalization) | logical process wherein you reason from particulars to universals, using specific cases in order to draw a conclusion | 102 | |
| 5564514882 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence | 103 | |
| 5564516471 | dramatic irony | tension created by the contrast between what a characters says or thinks and what the audience or readers know to be true | 104 | |
| 5564528747 | situational irony | a discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens | 105 | |
| 5564531809 | verbal irony | figure of speech that occurs when a speaker or character says one thing but means something else or when what is said is opposite of what is expected | 106 | |
| 5564539049 | juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences | 107 | |
| 5564542931 | logical fallacies | often arise form a failure to make a logical connection between the claim and evidence to support it | 108 | |
| 5564556389 | logos | Greek for "embodied thought" | 109 | |
| 5564558434 | metaphor | figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as | 110 | |
| 5564561345 | meter | formal, regular organization of stressed and unstressed syllables, measured in feet | 111 |
