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| 6442718590 | Circumlocution | (n.) indirect and wordy language (The professor's habit of speaking in circumlocutions made it difficult to follow his lectures.) ex: | 0 | |
| 6433491333 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant ex: Correctional facility instead of jail | 1 | |
| 6433491334 | Verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant ex: As calm as a dog in heat. | 2 | |
| 6433491336 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. ex: The movie Scary Movies | 3 | |
| 6433491335 | Situational irony | Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. ex: A fire station burns down. | 4 | |
| 6433491337 | Rhetorical Fallacies | Definition: False or misleading statements used to persuade you to agree with them ex:let's start at the very beginning/it is a very good place to start. | 5 | |
| 6433491338 | Fallacy | (n.) a false notion or belief; an error in thinking exlet's start at the very beginning/it is a very good place to start. | 6 | |
| 6433491339 | Ad hominem | An argument based on the failings of an adversary rather than on the merits of the case; a logical fallacy that involves a personal attack. ex: Stating that one's age precludes him from being able to make an intelligent or meaningful argument, such as, "You are clearly just too young to understand." | 7 | |
| 6433491340 | Argument from authority | tempts us to agree with the author's based on the authority of a famous person or on the author's own character ex: Dr. Smith, an expert in computer engineering, does not believe in climate change, so his claims are valid and are evidence that climate change does not exist. | 8 | |
| 6433491341 | Appeal to ignorance | A fallacy that uses an opponent's inability to disprove a conclusion as proof of the conclusion's correctness. ex: "You can't prove that there aren't Martians living in caves under the surface of Mars, so it is reasonable for me to believe there are." | 9 |