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| 13697797078 | ad hominem | a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute | 0 | |
| 13697800210 | ad populum | bandwagon appeal | 1 | |
| 13697802883 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 2 | |
| 13697809600 | allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 3 | |
| 13697809601 | analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 4 | |
| 13697820272 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 5 | |
| 13697824839 | anticlimax | a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events | 6 | |
| 13697838526 | appeal to authority | A fallacy in which a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or institution. | 7 | |
| 13697856227 | Argumentation | exploration of a problem by investigating all sides of it | 8 | |
| 13697867919 | begging the question | A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt. | 9 | |
| 13697872965 | cause and effect | The reason something happens and the result of it happening. | 10 | |
| 13697879656 | chronological ordering | arrangement in the order in which things occur; may move from past to present or in reverse chronological order, from present to past | 11 | |
| 13697887224 | classification as a means of ordering | arrangement of objects according to class | 12 | |
| 13697892615 | Colloquial Expressions | Words or phrases characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation. | 13 | |
| 13697902272 | damning with faint praise | intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication | 14 | |
| 13697905347 | deduction | the process of moving from a general rule to a specific example | 15 | |
| 13697909178 | digression | a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing | 16 | |
| 13697924984 | ellipsis | In grammar, the omission of a word or words necessary for complete construction but understood in context | 17 | |
| 13697937815 | Euphemism | the use of a word or phrase that is less direct, but that is also less distasteful or less offensive than another | 18 | |
| 13697965419 | expository writing | writing that explains or informs | 19 | |
| 13697972390 | False Dilemma | A fallacy of oversimplification that offers a limited number of options (usually two) when in fact more options are available. | 20 | |
| 13697980061 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 21 | |
| 13697984960 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 22 | |
| 13697994711 | Induction | factual reasoning | 23 | |
| 13698009296 | inverted syntax | reversing the normal word order of a sentence | 24 | |
| 13698013121 | irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 25 | |
| 13698024192 | litotes | in rhetoric, a figure in which an affirmative is expressed by a negation of the contrary | 26 | |
| 13698040285 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by being spoken of as though it were that thing | 27 | |
| 13698068747 | non sequitur | A statement that does not follow logically from evidence | 28 | |
| 13698080890 | order of importance | a method of organizing a paper according to the relative significance of the subtopics | 29 | |
| 13698087044 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which contradictory terms or ideas are combined | 30 | |
| 13698100177 | parable | A short story from which a lesson may be drawn. | 31 | |
| 13698112893 | Parallel syntactic structures | using the same part of speech or syntactic structure in (1) each element of a series, (2) before and after coordinating conjunctions (and, but, yet, or, for, nor), and (3) after each of a pair of correlative conjunctions (not only...but also, neither...nor, both...and, etc.). Below are examples for definitions (1) and (3):Over the hill, through the woods, and to grandmother's house we go. (3) That vegetable is both rich in vitamins and low in calories. | 32 | |
| 13698122593 | paradox | a statement which seems self-contradictory, but which may be true in fact | 33 | |
| 13698135391 | parody | a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way | 34 | |
| 13698150083 | pedantry | a display of narrow-minded and trivial scholarship or arbitrary adherence to rules and forms | 35 | |
| 13698159363 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 36 | |
| 13698170414 | periodic sentence structure | a sentence written so that the full meaning cannot be understood until the end | 37 | |
| 13698177161 | persuasion | taking a single position for the purpose of getting others to accept that position; may appeal to emotion or reason | 38 | |
| 13698183963 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 39 | |
| 13698188871 | post hoc fallacy | false assumption that because one event occurred before another event, it must have caused that event | 40 | |
| 13698196056 | rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 41 | |
| 13698200209 | satire | a literary work in which vices, abuses, absurdities,etc are held up to ridicule and contempt; use of ridicule; use of sarcasm | 42 | |
| 13698229945 | similie | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 43 | |
| 13698234658 | spatital ordering | organization of information using spatial cues such as top to bottom, left to right | 44 | |
| 13698254959 | syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 45 | |
| 13698257647 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 46 | |
| 13698268828 | syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 47 | |
| 13698274832 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 48 | |
| 13698281926 | Understatement | deliberately representing something as much less than it really is | 49 |
