Logical Fallacies
The arguer uses someone's position or assumed expertise to support a claim
What is Appeal to Authority?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is Alliteration?
A comparison between two things to explain or clarify an idea (not a simile or metaphor)
What is an Analogy?
Word whose pronunciation sounds like its meaning
What is Onomatopoeia?
Using similar grammatical structures to emphasize related ideas
What is Parallelism?
A claim that there are only two options in a given situation
What is False Dilemma?
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in two or more words
What is Assonance?
A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, etc. that the author expects the reader to know
What is an Analogy?
Deliberate exaggeration for emphasis or effect
What is Hyperbole?
Any omitted part of speech that is easily understood in context
What is Ellipsis?
A person's character or motive is attacked instead of the person's argument
What is Ad Hominem?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
What is Anaphora?
Placing two elements side by side to present a contrast
What is Juxtaposition?
A figure of speech in which contradictory terms or ideas are combined
What is an Oxymoron?
Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases
What is Antithesis?
A statement made after considering just one or a few examples
What is Hasty Generalization?
The repetition of the same word or groups of words at the end of phrases, clauses, or sentences
What is Epistrophe?
Substitution of one term with another that is closely related
What is Metonymy?
A contrast between expectation and reality (verbal, situational, or dramatic)
What is Irony?
Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words
What is Asyndeton?
The arguer claims a specific series of events will follow from one starting point
What is Slippery Slope?
A syntactical structure by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second
What is Chiasmus?
A figure of speech where a part is used to represent the whole
What is Synechdoche?
A statement that seems contradictory but reveals a truth
What is a Paradox?
A sentence which uses and or another conjunction to separate items in a series
What is Polysyndeton?