Cite It
This style guide is used in the production of academic papers pertaining primarily to rhetoric, literary analysis, and philosophy.
MLA
The plague was death itself.
Metaphor
These three words describe the three appeals that an effective argument utilizes.
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
This fallacy literally translates to "At the Person".
Ad Hominem
A central, unifying idea about humanity found in art
Theme
The name of the tag added at the end of quoted or paraphrased material.
In-text Citation
The wind leapt from branch to branch, jostling them all with its thousand hands.
Personification
These three terms are the necessary building blocks of every reasonable argument.
Claim
Evidence
Reasoning
This fallacy is often used by advertisers to prey on humanity's desire to belong.
Bandwagon Fallacy
A word which means the "opposite" of a word in connotation
Antonym
If citing an average poem, this is the type of number used in the in-text citation.
Line Number
After a lot of work nursing the dolphin back to health, it was eaten by a killer whale minutes after it was released.
Irony
This specific term is used to denote the central argument of a text.
Thesis
Why might ice cream sales correlate to shark attacks in the united states?
Summer Time
If a tech company publishes research supporting the use of generative AI in the workplace, it is an example of this credibility red flag:
Bias
The legal term for the usage of cited information or/or media without attribution.
Plagerism
Pumpkin cookies are the Achilles heel of my diet.
Allusion
In academic argument, this is the ratio of analysis to evidence.
4:1
Thanos justifies his actions as 'inevitable' and claims there's no alternative, exemplifying this fallacy.
False Dilemma
While a prefix changes the meaning of a word, a suffix changes its:
Part of Speech/Conjugation
In MLA format, the Works Cited page is organized in this way.
Alphabetical by Last Name
The young boy kept cutting corners in school, so he never amounted to much.
Idiom
BE SPECIFIC
This part of the argument acknowledges claims made by the opposition.
Concession
"With the US unemployment rate at 9.1%, every state, county and city has unemployment problems."
Hasty Generalization
The repetition not of words, but of syntax, to provide emphasis to an idea
Parallel Structure
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities