A-E

Question 1

ad hominem

Answer 1

and argument “against the man”; attacking the arguer rather than the argument or issue

Question 2

ambiguity

Answer 2

deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meetings in a work. An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way.

Question 3

analogy

Answer 3

comparison made between two things to show how they are alike

Question 4

anaphora

Answer 4

repetition of a word or phrase or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences/lines of poetry in a row

Question 5

anecdote

Answer 5

A brief story told illustrate a point or serve as an example of something often showing the character of an individual

Question 6

anthropomorphism

Answer 6

attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object

Question 7

antimetabole

Answer 7

repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order.

Question 8

antithesis

Answer 8

balancing words phrases or ideas that are strongly contrasted often by means of grammatical structure

Question 9

aphorism

Answer 9

A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life one of a principle or accepted general truth it is also called maximum, adage or epigram.

Question 10

apostrophe

Answer 10

calling out to an imaginary, dead or absent person (like God)

Question 11

argument

Answer 11

an appeal to reason by way of facts, with the end of drawing ones audience into thinking and acting in a certain way

Question 12

argumentation

Answer 12

one of the four traditional forms of discourse: trying to convince the reader to think in a certain way

Question 13

assonance

Answer 13

the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds

Question 14

asyndeton

Answer 14

commas used without conjunction to separate words: x,y,z

Question 15

begging the question

Answer 15

an argument is circular if it’s conclusion is among its premises

Question 16

claim of fact

Answer 16

a claim that asserts that something exists, has existed or will exist based on data that the audience will accept as objectively verifiable

Question 17

claim of policy

Answer 17

a claim asserting that specific courses of action should be instituted as solutions to problems

Question 18

claim of value

Answer 18

a claim that asserts some things are more or less desirable than others

Question 19

cliche

Answer 19

overused word

Question 20

colloquialism

Answer 20

informal wording

Question 21

concession

Answer 21

an acknowledgement of objection to a proposal

Question 22

counter argument

Answer 22

an opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward: concession and refutation

Question 23

deduction

Answer 23

reasoning by which we establish that a conclusion must be true because the statements on which it is based on are true

Question 24

description

Answer 24

one of the four traditional forms of discourse; uses language to create a mood or emotion or depict an image or sensation

Question 25

didactic

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intended to teach a specific lesson or moral

Question 26

exposistion

Answer 26

one of the four traditional forms of discourse; explains ideas

Question 27

epigraph

Answer 27

a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme

Question 28

equivocation

Answer 28

using the same term in two different senses in an argument

Question 29

ethos

Answer 29

appeal through ethics

Question 30

euphemism

Answer 30

a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concepts

Question 31

explication

Answer 31

the act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text,
usually involving close reading, annotation and special attention to figurative language