AP Flashcards
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5764421350 | Metonymy | substitution of some attributes or suggestive word for what is actually meant | 0 | |
5764421351 | Anaphora | repetition of same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses | 1 | |
5764421352 | Epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses | 2 | |
5764421353 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word if one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 3 | |
5764421354 | Alliteration | repetition of consonants in two or more adjacent words | 4 | |
5764421355 | Asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses | 5 | |
5764421356 | Oxymoron | apparently contradictory words appear in conjunction | 6 | |
5764421357 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound | 7 | |
5764421358 | Metaphor | implied comparison between two things of unlike nature | 8 | |
5764421359 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas often in parallel structure | 9 | |
5764421360 | Parallelism | use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter | 10 | |
5764421361 | Epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the same clause | 11 | |
5764421362 | Polysyndeton | conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession often with no commas | 12 | |
5764421363 | Chiasmus | words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order in the same or modified form | 13 | |
5764421364 | Litotes | deliberate use of an understatement | 14 | |
5764421365 | Paradox | a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to a self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion | 15 | |
5764421366 | Red Herring | an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue | 16 | |
5764421367 | Either/ Or | oversimplification that offers a limited number of options when in reality more options are available | 17 | |
5764421368 | Hasty Generalization | draws a general rule from a single perhaps atypical case | 18 | |
5764421369 | Post hoc ergo propter hoc | "after this, therefore because of this" one event is said to be the cause of a later event simply because it occured earlier | 19 | |
5764421370 | Ad hominem | "to the man" attacking a persons character or physical appearance instead of the argument | 20 | |
5764421371 | Faulty analogy | an elaborate comparison of two things that are too dissimilar, it relies on very weak similarities of type and number | 21 | |
5764421372 | Circular reasoning | occurs when the reasoner begins with what s/hes trying to end with | 22 | |
5764421373 | Appeal to false authority | using a biased suspicious or incredible source to defend a conclusion | 23 | |
5764421374 | Straw man | opponents argument is overstated or misrepresented in order to be more easily attacked or refuted | 24 |