Acronyms & other stuff
In rhetoric, this word is the issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak.
What is exigence?
The rhetorical term for the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses
What is anaphora?
This rhetorical device uses juxtaposition of two opposing ideas in parallel structure.
What is antithesis?
This type of sentence unfolds gradually, so that the main idea is elaborated by the end of the sentence.
What is a periodic sentence?
This fallacy involves attacking the person making the argument, rather than the argument itself.
What is ad hominem?
This acronym is used to help evaluate sources.
What is $SEEITT?
Deliberate exaggeration for dramatic or emotional effect
What is hyperbole?
The rhetorical term for a statement that seems contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true
What is paradox?
The type of sentence starts with the main clause and adds multiple details after it, building upon the initial statement?
What is a loose sentence?
This fallacy occurs when someone oversimplifies or misrepresents another person’s argument to make it easier to attack.
What is straw man?
What is CHELPSS?
The term for a figure of speech that deliberately negates, or understates, the opposite of the word which otherwise would be used?
What is litotes?
The term for using a related item to represent something (the PEN is mightier than the SWORD)
What is metonymy?
This type of sentence structure involves starting with an independent clause and then adding a series of modifiers after it.
What is a cumulative sentence?
This fallacy involves making an argument that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct, or desirable. An appeal to majority.
What is bandwagon?
What do the final two letters of $SEEITT stand for?
What is timeliness and technology?
(Economic, safety, ethical, environmental, international, timeliness, technology)
The term for a part of something used to refer to the whole, or vice versa.
What is synecdoche?
The name of the syntactic technique that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, and clauses.
What is asyndeton?
This style uses a series of independent clauses, each standing alone to make a point, much like the cars of a train.
What is a freight-train style sentence?
This fallacy is when the conclusion does not logically follow from the premises, often because the premises are insufficient or unrelated. Someone incorrectly assumes that a relation exists between two things or events.
What is the false cause fallacy?
What does EACH LETTER of CHELPPSS stand for?
Current events, history, experiences, literature, pop culture, philosophy, sports, science.
The rhetorical device that repeats the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause.
What is anadiplosis?
The rhetorical strategy that uses several conjunctions in close succession to emphasize what's being said.
What is polysyndeton?
"When the cafe is too crowded, I work at home" is an example of this kind of sentence (using syntax vocabulary)
What is a periodic sentence?
This fallacy is when the conclusion does not logically follow from the premises, often because the premises are insufficient or unrelated.
What is non sequitur?