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14 Cards in this Set
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Ad hominem
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appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason.
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Anecdote
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a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical.
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Antecedent
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a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon, etc.
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Antithesis
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opposition; contrast
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didactic
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intended for instruction
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ellipsis
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the omission of one or more items from a construction
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epigraph
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an inscription, esp. on a building, statue, or the like.
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invective
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an insulting or abusive word or expression.
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metonymy
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a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related
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parable
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a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
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pathos
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the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion.
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pedantic
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ostentatious in one's learning.
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reductio ad absurdum
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a reduction to an absurdity; the refutation of a proposition by demonstrating the inevitably absurd conclusion to which it would logically lead.
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synecdoche
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a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
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