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| person's character or motive is attacked instead of argument |
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| widespread occurence of something is assumed to make it true or right |
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| story in which people, places, and things represent general concepts and/or moral qualities |
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| brief reference to a presumed pre-known piece of work, such as the Bible |
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| comparison between two things; the most complex is explained in terms of the more simple |
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| short account of some happening |
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| sudden drop from the significant to the trivial for humorous effect |
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| citing information from trustable and legitimate sources |
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| investigating all sides of a problem |
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| assumes as true what one is trying to prove |
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| examination of causes and effects of a situation |
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| arrangement in order in which things occur |
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| classification as a means of ordering |
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| arrangement of objects according to class |
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| words and phrases used in everyday speech but avoided in formal writing |
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| damning with faint praise |
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| intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication |
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| deduction (deductive reasoning) |
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| reasoning that begins with a generalization, then applies it to a specific case or cases |
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| temporary departure from main subject |
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| omission of word or word that are not necessary for sound meaning |
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| use of word or phrase that is less direct, but also less distasteful or offensive than another |
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| writing aimed to explain or analyze |
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| too few of the available alternatives are considered |
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| exaggeration of fact for a serious or comic effect |
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| lively descriptions meant to paint pictures in the audience's mind |
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| induction (inductive reasoning) |
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| works from a body of fact to reach a generalization |
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| reversal of the normal word order in a sentence |
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| sarcastic expression when the intended meaning is opposite of usual meaning |
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| affirmative is expressed by a negation of the contrary |
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| comparison between two things portrayed as being the same |
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| statement that does not follow logically from its precedents |
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| method of organizing a paper based on significance of subtopics |
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| contradictory terms are combined |
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| short story from which a lesson may be drawn |
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| parallel syntactic structure |
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| using same part of speech or synctactic structure in different situations |
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| statement which seems self-contradictory, but it may be true |
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| composition that imitates a serious work in order to achieve humor or satire |
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| display of narrow-mindedness |
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| an inanimate object or abstract concept is given human characteristics |
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| periodic sentence structure |
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| sentence that can not be fully understood until the end |
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| way in which something is viewed by the writer or speaker |
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| assumes that a preceding incident is the cause of the second incident |
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| using words for means of influence or persuasion |
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| question in which the answer is already known by the questioned |
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| comparison using "like" or "as" |
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| organization using spatial cues such as top to bottom, left to right, etc. |
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| two premises are presented and a logical conclusion is made |
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| something that stands for another thing |
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| the arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship |
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| way of wording that expresses the attitude of the speaker/writer toward the subject |
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| deliberatley conveying something as much less than it actually is |
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