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Question 1

Irony

Answer 1

Words express a meaning opposite to the intended meaning

Question 2

Jargon

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Juxtapose

Answer 3

Placing two ideas side by side together

Question 4

Lending credence

Answer 4

Lend her opponent se credit for the opponents ideas

Question 5

Litotes

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Logical reasoning

Answer 6

Principles governing correct or liable inferences

Question 7

Loose sentence

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Lyrical drama

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Logical fallacies

Answer 9

Methods of combing to lend credibility to unsound argument

Question 10

LF : ad hominem

Answer 10

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

Question 11

LF Begging the question

Answer 11

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

Question 12

LF False analogy

Answer 12

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

Question 13

LF Non sequltr

Answer 13

Irrelevant evidence to support claim

Question 14

LF red herring

Answer 14

Use irrelevant point to divert attention from real issue

Question 15

LF Slippery slope

Answer 15

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

Question 16

LF Straw man

Answer 16

An easily refuted objection used to divert attention from real issue

Question 17

Idiom

Answer 17

Expression that cannot be translated literally into a second language