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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Claim of Policy | Purposes a change |
| Ad Hominem | When the speaker abandons the argument to attack the opponent |
| Concession | Agreeing with the opposing viewpoint on a certain smaller point (but not in the larger argument). |
| Alliteration | Using words with the same first letter repeatedly close together in a phrase or sentence. EX-Peter Piper |
| Deductive Reasoning | A logical process whereby the writer reasoning goes through a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are assumed to be true (known as top down). |
| Asyndeton | A writing style where conjunctions are omitted in a series of words, phrases or clauses. It is used to shorten a sentence and focus on its meaning. (not connected) (veni, vedi, vici) |
| Juxtaposition | Placing two very different things together for effect. |
| Cumulative Sentence | Clarifies or qualifies an idea stated in a preceding base clause. |
| Euphemism | Referring to something with a veiled phrase instead of saying it directly |
| Exemplification | Providing examples in service of a point |
| Oxymoron | Conjoining contradictory terms |
| Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached between inadequate evidence |
| Parallelism | Repeated structural elements in a sentence. |
| Inductive reasoning | Logical process in which multiple premises, all believed true or found true most of the time, are combined to obtain a specific conclusion (known as bottom up) |
| Periodic Sentence | A long, complex, grammatically correct sentence. |
| Metonymy | Using a single feature to represent the thing itself, |
| Occasion | When and where and in what situation; place, context, or current situation that created the reason for the author to write. |
| polysyndeton | A literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed. (bound together) |
| Quantitative Evidence | things that can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numbers- for instance, statistics, surverys, polls, census information. |
| Bandwagon | This fallacy occurs when evidence boils down to "everyone's doing it" |
| Red Herring | Cheap ploy to divert the audience from the real or central issue to some irrelevant detail |
| Rhetoric | The use of spoken or written word (or a visual medium) to convey your ideas and convince an audience. The art of finding ways to persuade. |
| Claim of Fact | asserts that something is true or not true. |
| Satire | A genre of humorous and mocking criticism to expose the ignorance and/or ills of society. |
| Circular Reasoning | A fallacy in which the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence. Insufficient biased evidence |
| Anaphora | Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines (a form of parallelism). mlk |
| Claim | A conclusion we are seeking to establish- an assertion of belief (our thesis) |
| Syntax | The way sentences are grammatically constructed. |
| Synecdoche | Referring to one part of something as a way to refer to the whole. (a type of metonmy when a whole is representd by naming one of its parts or vice versa) |