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27 Cards in this Set
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Ad Hominem Argument
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Attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issues at hand
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Alliteration
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Repetition of Consonant sounds
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Allusion
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Reference, usually faint to another thing, idea or person
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Ambiguity
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Uncertain or indefinite
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Analogy
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Resemblance between two things that are essentially different
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Anecdote
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A short story used to illustrate a point
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Antecedent
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Every pronoun refers to a previous noun or pronoun
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Antithesis
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An contrast of ideas
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Appositive
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A word or phrase that follow a noun or pronoun for emphasis
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Assonance
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Internal rhyming, vowel sounds are repeated
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Asyndeton
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When conjunctions such as ‘and’ or ‘but’ are omitted from a sentence
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Deductive Argument
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The process of moving from a general rule to a specific example
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Diction
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Writer’s choice of words
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Didactic
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Text that aims to instruct or teach
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Elegy
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Work that expresses sorrow
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Ethos
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Ethics or Values
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Euphemism
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Pleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh, indelicate or simply less pleasant idea
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Exposition
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Writing or speech that is organised to explain
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Figurative Speech
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Language that imply an imaginative comparison
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Inductive Argument
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Creating a case by providing specific examples
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Logos
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The use of reason as a controlling principle in an argument
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech that is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
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Pathos
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A feeling of pity evoked by a text
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Periodic sentence
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Presents the main clause at the end of a sentence
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Syllogism
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Pieces of evidence are used to create a new conclusion
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Lilotes
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Understatement
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Zeugma
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When a word is used with two adjacent words in the same construction, but only makes literal sense with one of them.
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