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101-120 Flashcards

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Concession- Part II

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Allows the reader to realize that the writer is fair and acknowledges several sides

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Portmanteau

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When two or more words are joined together to coin a new word

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Portmanteau- Part II

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It involves the linking and blending of two or more words

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Litotes

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Understatement; especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all”

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Chiasmus

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Rhetoric reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases

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Anadiplosis

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A rhetorical term for the repetition of the last word of one line or clause to begin the nest

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Invective

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A verbally abusive attack

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Circumlocution

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Using a lot of words to express an idea so as to effect an evasion in speech

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Begging the question

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Supporting a claim by restating the same claim just in different words

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Adage

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A less formal aphorism

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Verisimilitude

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A quality of realism that persuades the reader that he is getting a vision of life as it is

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Malapropism

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A confused, comically inaccurate use of a long word or words

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Cadence

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The rising and falling rythm of speech especially free verse or prose

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False Analogy

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Error in assuming that because two things are alike in some ways, they are alike in all ways

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Hasty Generalization

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Unsound inference based on insufficient, inadequate, unspecified evidence

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Non sequitur

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A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before

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Post Hoc

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Because one thing follows another, it is held to cause the other

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Ad Hominem

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Instead of attacking an assertion, the argument attacks the person who made the assertion

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Polyphasic

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excessive talking

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Diatribe

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A bitter and abusive speech or writing

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