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The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
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Antithesis
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(1) A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion.
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Aphorism
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A rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing.
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Apostrophe
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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.
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Appeal to Authority
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A fallacy that uses an opponent's inability to disprove a conclusion as proof of the conclusion's correctness.
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Appeal to Ignorance
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A course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating truth or falsehood.
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Argument
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The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
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Assonance
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The omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses (opposite of polysyndeton).
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Asyndeton
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An individual (usually a person) in a narrative (usually a work of fiction or creative nonfiction).
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Character
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A verbal pattern in which the second half on an expression is balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed.
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Chiasmus
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