11/1/15 Flashcards

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Irony

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Words express a meaning opposite to the intended meaning

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Jargon

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Specialized language providing a shorthand method of quick communication between people in the same field

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Juxtapose

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Placing two ideas side by side together

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Lending credence

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Lend her opponent se credit for the opponents ideas

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Litotes

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Form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite

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Logical reasoning

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Principles governing correct or liable inferences

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Loose sentence

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A sentence grammatically complete at some point before the end, consist of an independent clause followed by a dependent clause

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Lyrical drama

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Dramatic poem used to express lyric themes ( emotion or idea of life)

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Logical fallacies

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Methods of combing to lend credibility to unsound argument

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LF : ad hominem

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An attack against the character of the person instead of the issue

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LF Begging the question

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Circular reasoning (fake argument- proof is the claim the argument itself exist to prove)

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LF False analogy

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Unwarranted assumption that two things similar in some respect are also similar similar in ALL other ways

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13
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LF Non sequltr

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Irrelevant evidence to support claim

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LF red herring

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Use irrelevant point to divert attention from real issue

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LF Slippery slope

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Failure to provide evidence showing that one event will lead to chain of events of catastrophic nature

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16
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LF Straw man

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An easily refuted objection used to divert attention from real issue

17
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Idiom

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Expression that cannot be translated literally into a second language